ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,391, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TADA Cognitive Solutions LLC (Peoria, Ill.).

"Digital duplicate" was invented by Seshadri Guha (Peoria, Ill.), Vinay Sikka (Peoria, Ill.) and Subbarao Turlapati (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is new approach for structuring an organization's data, involving at a high level establishing a digital context and populating the digital context with digital content to thereby form what is referred to herein as a digital duplicate. In one aspect, the disclosed approach may be embodied in a computer-implemented method that involves: establishing a data structure comprising...