ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,912, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Verity Platforms Inc. (Acton, Mass.).

"Information platform systems and methods" was invented by Jeffrey Carroll Marsh (Acton, Mass.), Eugene Emelyanov (Acton, Mass.), Salar Satti (Lawrence, Mass.) and Mark Stephan (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects describe an information platform for consistently integrating and/or quantifying the underlying principles of ESG into financial analyses, analytical tools, metrics, and/or available information on reviewed companies, business entities, etc., and further provide integration of analysis with community-based insight, cont...