ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,298, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Dun and Bradstreet Corp. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"System and method for discovery and attribution of critical ecosystem multiple counterparty behaviors to enable discovery" was invented by Anthony Scriffignano (West Caldwell, N.J.), Ilya Meyzin (New Providence, N.J.), Kamel Belkacem-Boussaid (Holmdel, N.J.), Yan Vtorov (Livingston, N.J.), Seyed Mohammad Nikouei (Hoboken, N.J.), David A. Spingarn (Randolph, N.J.), Jason Cawley (Anthem, Ariz.), Marco Guidetti (Castel Maggiore, Italy) and Philippa Cammack (Cupar, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An empirically rigorous system and met...