ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,899, issued on July 29, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Transparency system and method of use" was invented by Floyd Askew (Morrow, Ga.), Bhaskar Bhide (Alpharetta, Ga.), Thiago Correia De Brum (Braselton, Ga.), Acey Bunch (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Chris J. Davis (Alpharetta, Ga.), Jingyuan Hu (Cumming, Ga.), Kamilah Kiser (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Cheryl Lewis (New York), Juliano Sanches Maia (Atlanta), Diego Nobre (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Yuhong Zha (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to a tool for developing insights relevant to database changes and, more particularly, to a payroll t...