ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,820, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Embarcadero Technologies Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Syndication of associations relating data and metadata" was invented by James B. Pitts (Lakeway, Texas) and Michael L. Swindell (Aptos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for passively relating data to metadata, associations that relate data in a first database to metadata in a second database are received, wherein an association links the data to the metadata, wherein the data is for use in a software application, and wherein the associations are created automatically without user interaction. A visual clue is displayed in a graphi...