ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,267, issued on May 26, was assigned to Protiviti Inc..

"Systems and methods for automated audit artifact reconciliation" was invented by Andrew Vechey Galazka (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), John Taylor Stirling (Davie, Fla.), Kevin Ross Stuart (Orlando, Fla.) and Jeremy Ryan Wildhaber (Edwardsville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present solution provides systems and methods to receive an artifact, cause the artifact to be compared with many data structures such as files, based on the types of the data structures, determining a similarity between the artifact and elements of the data structures, comparing the similarity to one or m...