ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,259, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Reltio Inc. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Personally identifiable information comparison to dynamic industry state" was invented by Michael Burke (Boston), Jordan Hardy (San Diego), Alexander Huitric (Goleta, Calif.), Nilesh Mishra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Manish Sood (Seattle) and Robin Sylvester (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other techniques, techniques for providing feedback associated with personally identifiable information (PII) to a customer that is a member of an industry are described. The feedback includes a comparison with dynamic industry state. A system utilizing t...