ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,904, issued on March 25, was assigned to Neptune Flood Inc. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Reduction component conversion and assignment" was invented by Trevor Burgess (St. Petersburg, Fla.), James Dennis Albert (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Brad Henry Schulz (Odessa, Fla.), James Edward Steiner (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Michael Freed Dezube (Wellesley, Mass.), William Guy Beakley (Carlisle, Mass.) and Matthew Paul Duffy (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for electronically automating reduction component selection, conversion, disaggregation, and assignment is provided. The system generates graphical user interfaces th...