ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,506, issued on May 20, was assigned to Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (New York).

"Method for managing data assets in an enterprise data marketplace" was invented by Alex Rosenthal (Syosset, N.Y.), Daniel Johnson (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Jennifer Dieter (Allentown, Pa.), Wang Cheung (Astoria, N.Y.), Ashutosh Khandekar (North Brunswick, N.J.) and Prathamesh Jagtap (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a centralized data asset marketplace including a single network or cloud platform environment for the sharing and distribution of data assets, a user interface layer providing a user access to the...