ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,943, issued on March 11, was assigned to KYG Trade INC. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"System and method for facilitating global trade and sustainable environmental and governance attribute attestations" was invented by Todd R. Smith (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global trade and SESG management system includes a processor in electronic communication with at least one data repository having product data stored thereon. The processor is configured to generate an electronic data record (EDR) corresponding to a product and store the EDR in memory associated with the processor. The EDR includes: a record identifier;...