US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Semantic matching model for data de-duplication or master data management" (Indian, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,268, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Semantic matching model for data de-duplication or master data management" was invented by Balakumaran Vaithyalingam (Frisco, Texas), Abhishek Seth (Deoband, India), Trent A. Gray-Donald (Ottawa) and Soma Shekar Naganna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may include a generating a semantic label based on a frequency of similar values in a data field; and profiling a data source; identifying, based on the profiling, critical data elements (CDEs) and non-CDEs within the data source; auto-persisting t...