ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,208, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Database retention and destruction systems for records management" was invented by Anthony Patrick Miles (Richmond, Va.), David Alan Vogeler (Punta Gorda, Fla.) and Adesh Gupta (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods assign, via a data classification workflow, metadata to an inventory of modules. A fetch API is processed, via a records management workflow, to access the inventory of the modules, the fetch API including (i) obtaining module metadata of the modules from the inventory, (ii) executing an extensible markup language (XML) sea...