US Patent Issued to Ab Initio Technology on Oct. 28 for "Discovering a semantic meaning of data fields from profile data of the data fields" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,016, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Discovering a semantic meaning of data fields from profile data of the data fields" was invented by Christopher Thurston Butler (Ascot, Great Britain) and Timothy Spencer Bush (North Leigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system for discovering a semantic meaning of a field included in one or more data sets is configured to identify a field included in one or more data sets, with the field having an identifier. For that field, the system profiles data values of the field to generate a data profile, accesses a plurality...