ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,425, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Condensing hierarchies in a governance system based on usage" was invented by Albert Maier (Tuebingen, Germany), Mike W. Grasselt (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Yannick Saillet (Stuttgart, Germany), Lars Bremer (Boeblingen, Germany) and Michael Baessler (Bempflingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can condense a hierarchy in a data governance system, wherein the hierarchy comprises a root node and a...