ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,440, issued on March 4, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enterprise data management platform" was invented by Prashant Jamkhedkar (Fremont, Calif.), Nalini Johnas (Newark, Calif.), Ravinder Dhamija (Dublin, Calif.), Daniel Oing (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Senthil Vellaichamy (Chennai, India), Durga Rathinasamy (Chennai, India), Rajagopal Ramakrishnan (Chennai, India), Jose Smithesh Joseph (Kollam, India), Tariq Akhtar Shaikh (San Jose, Calif.), Venkateshan Sundaram (San Ramon, Calif.) and Viswanathan Varadarajan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for collectively storing,...