ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,945, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Method and system for implementing data associations" was invented by Ronald A. Lewis (Bastrop, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing data storage and/or retrieval, and, more particularly, for implementing data associations. In various embodiments, an associations rules engine might query data aggregation data services to determine whether a first data object (which along with a first relationship rule that indicates a one-to-one relationship between the first data object and a corresponding sec...