ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,417, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Robust record-to-event conversion system" was invented by Tom Tabak (Tel Aviv, Israel), Matthew Joseph Moffat (London), Julian Cowley (London), Lana Lents (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Alon Meller (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed comprising techniques for record-to-event conversion, such as retrieving at least one alphanumeric record associated with a monitored digital communication transmitted among two or more users, generating a time-enumerated data structure that stores an event entry set for the monitored digital communi...