ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,907, issued on May 27, was assigned to Monster Worldwide Inc. (New York).

"Apparatuses, methods and systems for automated online data submission" was invented by Richard C. Wehrle (Stow, Mass.) and Danielle F. Dellovo (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discusses an AODSA tool that assists a user in submitting data responding to an online data posting. An embodiment of the invention is described as a job application utility. The user registers with a central data management system. This may be achieved by uploading a resume and/or manually providing registration data. Alternately, the registration data...