ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,957, issued on May 13.

"Systems and methods for mapping columns across databases" was invented by Arindam Banerjee (Howrah, India) and Sanghamitra Gopen Pramanik (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a non-transitory, processor-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to cause display of (1) a first node associated with a name of a column of a first table, (2) a second node associated with a name of a column of a second table, and (3) a third node associated with a name of a column of a third table. A user-defined selection of the second node and...