ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,468, issued on July 29, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for a data ecosystem" was invented by Scott Howard Magoon (Cary, N.C.), Tufail Ahmed Khan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Di Hu (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a governance graph representing data set interconnection. The data set interconnections may be based on common fields, sources, databases, applications, or patterns of usage. For example, the interconnections may be direct connections, where one data set is directly downstream from another data set. Alternatively, the interconnections may...