ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,401, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to OPEN TEXT GXS ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Trading partner relationship graph for information exchange platform" was invented by Ricardo Ceppi (Vienna, Va.), John Theodore Radko (Germantown, Md.) and Miguel Garcia (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information exchange platform referred to as a Trading Grid (TG) may perform relationship-based data processing utilizing a trading partner (TP) graph that describes relationships amongst operating units (OUs) on the TG. When the TG receives a request from an OU to exchange data with a TP, the TG accesses the TP graph and determines a relationship...