ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,036, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DK Crown Holdings Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for generating network data structures from local peripheral signals" was invented by Aaron Tenbuuren (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) and Sam MacGinty (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating network data structures from local peripheral signals are disclosed. A system can receive image data from a capture device, where the image data includes a plurality of pixels. The system can determine that the plurality of pixels depict a visual representation of a first data record satisfying a predetermined criterion, the firs...