ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,897, issued on April 22, was assigned to Slate Technologies Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"System and method for establishing contextual links between data in a construction environment" was invented by Senthil Manickavasagam Kumar (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing and generating contextual links between data from a plurality of data sources is described. The method includes receiving data and decomposing the received data into a decomposed data set; parsing and analyzing the decomposed data set based on a set of attribute analyzers to associate one or more attributes to the decomposed data set; det...