ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,923, issued on July 14, was assigned to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington).
"Visually mapping nodes and connections in one or more enterprise-level systems" was invented by Hui Zeng (Fairfax, Va.), Douglas R. Shumway (Gaithersburg, Md.), Paul A. Geske (Raleigh, N.C.) and Wilairat Udomsawat (Fairfax, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving data records from a plurality of different data sources, in which the data records include information regarding elements or components in one or more systems; consolidating the data records; extracting information from the consolidated data records...