US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 10 for "Detecting duplicate tables in data lake databases" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,871, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting duplicate tables in data lake databases" was invented by Karina Elayne Kervin (Sacramento, Calif.), Jian Wu (Round Rock, Texas), Sibasis Das (Kolkata, India), Radha Mohan De (Howrah, India), Swaminathan Balasubramanian (Troy, Mich.) and Cheranellore Vasudevan (Bastrop, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting duplicate tables by converting relational tables to knowledge graphs; and mapping nodes in the knowledge graphs to sources in the relational tables. The method may further include applying graph matching to the knowledg...