ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,396, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to eAffirm LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Variance detection between heterogeneous computer systems" was invented by Brian Haddon (Austin, Texas) and Ryan Owen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-accessible medium includes a multimedia-document integration module that includes a heterogeneous distinction identifier between a first multimedia-document and a second multimedia document and includes an integrator of the first multimedia-document and the second multimedia-document into an integrated multimedia-document, a query module that includes a query-generator encapsulated in a corres...