ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,123, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Actor-based information system" was invented by Madhu Kalaimalai (Pasadena, Calif.), Ajit Sri Kumar (San Dimas, Calif.), Joseph Dela-Cruz (Pasadena, Calif.) and Neeraj Gupta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accessing information. A computer system receives a request for a piece of the information stored in a location between client computer systems and sources of the information. The information has formats for the information in the location. The formats for the information are controlled by the sources of the information. Each of the so...