ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,285, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to EXALT SOLUTIONS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Intelligent multimedia e-catalog" was invented by Leslie H. Swanson (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent product catalog system provides for electronic creation, management and viewing of product information using a multimedia display system. A central database repository stores the product information and provides for an unlimited number of product attributes and dynamic reconfiguration of the product information. The central database repository comprises a metadata system, a scheme system and an object model system. A pluralit...