ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,570, issued on April 22, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for sharing vendor information across entities in the workplace" was invented by David M. Jones Jr. (San Antonio), Robert Lee Black (San Antonio), Timothy Blair Chalmers (San Antonio), Gideon Bowie Luck (Wylie, Texas), Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio), Ana Rosa Maldonado (San Antonio) and Oscar Roberto Tijerina (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current embodiments include systems and techniques for sharing information between vendors where the information is siloed due organizational constraints. Vendor...