ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,381, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Zoho Corporation Private Limited (Chengalpattu Taluk, India).

"Presenting entity activities" was invented by Ramakrishna Raju Vegesna (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity-centric approach has been proposed to provide a consistent user experience in accessing a unified software applications suite effortlessly. Entities are connected with one another. The entities and the connectivity between them are reflected in all three functional layers of 3-tier client-server architecture. Every entity has a set of attributes and each attribute represents a data item or record of a partic...