ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,344, issued on June 3, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Executing aggregate computing operations in complex computing networks" was invented by Pukar Bhandari (San Ramon, Calif.), Graham Gelwicks (San Francisco), Andrew Han (Needham, Mass.) and Peter Gassner (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for executing aggregate computing operations for a computing report without modifying records used to generate the computing report in a computing network. An exemplary method includes: receiving a selection of records from one or more available records; receiving a selecti...