ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,178, issued on June 23, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reconciling repository differences via encrypted network communications" was invented by Marius K. Mortensen (Burlington, Canada), Jared Ross Katz (San Francisco), John Tanner (Bristol, Great Britain) and Matthew Zimmerman (Elgin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconciling differences between a first repository and a second repository includes receiving a request to generate a network connection between the first repository and the second repository. The first repository is associated with the first application,...