ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,487, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"Enterprise entity resolution and management tool" was invented by Arthur Paul Drennan III (Avon, Conn.), John Franklin Russo Jr. (West Hartford, Conn.), William C. Lewis (Avon, Conn.), Summer Tracy St George (Marlborough, Conn.) and Aditi Baker (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity data store contains electronic records associated with entities (e.g., businesses). For each entity, electronic records include an entity identifier, entity operational data, and parameters associated with that entity (e.g., business name, addres...