ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,804, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Structured-data analysis and visualization" was invented by Piotr Kuchnio (Toronto), Marius K. Mortensen (Burlington, Canada), Asaf Roll (Richmond Hills, Canada) and Zhen Tan (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for accessing, maintaining, analyzing, and visualizing structured data are presented. The system receives from a requesting computing device, a first request for a first hierarchical record. The system searches a first repository having first structured data. The system determines whether the first hierarchical ...