ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,261, issued on April 29, was assigned to TRETE Inc. (Propser, Texas).

"Data retrieval and validation for asset onboarding" was invented by Damien Patton (Plano, Texas) and Christian Gratton (Eaton Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes collecting, via an artificial intelligence module, a first set of data associated with an asset and creating identifiers associated with the first set of data. The method includes collecting a second set of data associated with the asset based on the identifiers and comparing the first set of data and the second set of da...