ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,823, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP INC. (Boston).

"Financial data analytics engine associated with a customer relationship management system" was invented by Kirsten Stiene Riemer (Munich), Markus Andreas Wiemann (Frankfurt, Germany), Christian Claus Wagner-Binder (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Jakob Maximilian David Liss (Germering, Germany), Alexander Albert Wetzler (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Felix Andreas Gerken (Munich), Christof Friedrich Naumzik (Hamburg, Germany), Ian Stokes-Rees (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Barric Allen Reed (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storag...