ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,000, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Guidewire Software Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Custom data" was invented by John Lorne Campbell Seybold (Aspen, Colo.) and Eugene Lee (Albany, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of processing insurance data collected from a plurality of companies includes obtaining a company defined configuration that specifies how to extract a set of company generated data records from a data store and how the set of company generated data records is used by an application. The data store includes common data elements shared by the plurality of companies and company-specific data elements specifi...