ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,535, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GRAVIC INC. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Method for using chunks of change log data for comparing a source and a target database which are actively being kept in synchronization with each other" was invented by John R. Hoffmann (Kennett Square, Pa.), Paul J. Holenstein (Downingtown, Pa.), Bruce D. Holenstein (Media, Pa.) and Dylan R. Holenstein (Newtown Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method is provided for comparing a source database and a target database that are intended to be kept in synchronization with each other. An application processes transactions that are posted to the sour...