ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,470, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intercontinental Exchange Holdings Inc. (Atlanta).

"Data aggregator graphical user interface" was invented by Joshua Bayne Starnes (Spring, Texas), Andrew Castellani McSween (Chicago), Marc Carl Batten (San Jose, Calif.), Jason Michael Jasinek (Elk Grove Village, Ill.) and Arun Narula (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a data aggregator interactive graphical user interface. An interactive graphical user interface (GUI) includes a selectable symbol region, a query region and a data results region. The selectable symbol region displays predefined sy...