ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,866, issued on May 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Data unification" was invented by Meiyalagan Balasubramanian (Redmond, Wash.), Lengning Liu (Redmond, Wash.), Aditya Kuppa (Redmond, Wash.), Kirk Hartmann Freiheit (Orlando, Fla.), Kalen Wong (Redmond, Wash.), Paula Budig Greve (Monroe, Wash.), Patrick Clinton Little (Seattle), Lucas Pritz (Redmond, Wash.), Yue Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.), Katchaguy Areekijseree (Woodinville, Wash.), Yeye He (Bellevue, Wash.), Surajit Chaudhuri (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gaurav Ghosh (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark O...