ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,884, issued on May 20, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Informed labeling of records for faster discovery of business critical information" was invented by Alex Robbins (Cambridge, Mass.), Akshaya Khare (Medford, Mass.) and Nicole Reineke (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes crawling data included in a dataset, based on the crawling of the data, creating and/or obtaining metadata concerning the data, crawling the metadata and obtaining information about a data change event involving the data, based on the crawling of the metadata, creating a meta label that documen...