ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,493, issued on July 29, was assigned to The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for a graph database" was invented by Heather Marie Gavlak (Delaware, Ohio), Richard Gregory Barker (Gibsonia, Pa.), Evan Michael Sorger (Berea, Ohio) and Kevin William Black (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a backlog of architectural information for storage in a database. The system may include at least one processor; and at least one memory configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include reporting architectural information corresponding to the grap...