ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,419, issued on July 29, was assigned to GRAVIC INC. (Malvern, Pa.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method is 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 one...