ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,298, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to APPLYBOARD INC. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Systems and methods for managing application data" was invented by Viktor Kopylov (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing application data. An example method involves operating a management processor to receive an initial application data for an applicant; store the initial application data; generate an initial cryptographic hash based on the initial application data; generate a preview of a first application for the applicant based on the initial cryptographic hash; and receive subsequent application...