ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,919, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ikigai Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ledger reconciliation" was invented by Nathaniel Clinton Lanier (Boston) and Devavrat Dilitkumar Shah (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system uses as input one or more tables representing financial transactions in records to those tables. The system identifies groups of transactions (and associate records or entries) in those tables as corresponding to distinct events, and may present indication of the grouping to a user of the system. In some examples, data in the tables is augmented with indicators of the events (e.g., in a fur...