ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,128, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Searching data on a synchronization data stream" was invented by Zhen Chen (Shanghai), Wei Huang (Shanghai), Yan Fang Ji (Wuxi, China), Bo Tian (Shanghai), Bei Bei Xu (Shanghai) and Miao Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer system, and computer program products. A search request is received. One of one or more search granularity classes based on the subject matter of the search request is assigned. A data synchronization stream of data records to generate a search ...