ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,367, issued on April 8, was assigned to GRAVIC INC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Method and apparatus for comparing rows of subsets of two database tables without regard to an original order of rows in either database table" was invented by Eugene P. Jarema (Downingtown, Pa.), Paul J. Holenstein (Downingtown, Pa.), Bruce D. Holenstein (Malvern, Pa.) and Dylan R. Holenstein (Newtown Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for comparing a first database table and a second database table with each other to produce a table of differences therebetween. The first database table and the second database table include o...