ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,926, issued on June 17, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Unit prediction for custom feature engineering" was invented by Lei Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yinlin Deng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mehdi Bahrami (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mukul R. Prasad (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a dataset that may include at least a first column and a second column, with a first title and a first value and a second title and a second value, respectively. The operations may further include determining a total similarity value between the first and second columns based on a metadata similarity valu...