ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,600, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for managing custom fields" was invented by Jayanth Saimani (Bangalore, India), Kiran Kumar Shivanandan (Bangalore, India) and Prabhat Hegde (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a table including a table schema including definitions of native fields, adding a value of a custom field to the table by inserting, in a native field, a native field value including (i) an identifier (ID) of the custom field and (ii) the value of the custom field, and storing a definition of the custom field in a custom f...