ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,728, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Data aggregation and compression systems facilitating data base querying and file management" was invented by Silvia Chabaneix (Charlotte, N.C.), Caelyn Barrett (Charlotte, N.C.), Joanna Zheng (Atlanta), John Henson (Sharpsburg, Ga.), Samuel Parrish (Atlanta) and Adeyemi Toluwani Adeyemo (Stone Mountain, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods query third-party data base(s) to obtain object data for each third-party object that is associated with action-based outcomes obtainable via use of the third-party objects, where the data base(s) are queried...