ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,794, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OPTUM INC. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Predictive recommendations for schema mapping" was invented by Daniel G. McCreary (St. Louis Park, Minn.) and Joshua A. Meekhof (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing entities, and/or the like, for recommending and/or defining cross-schema mappings, or a mapping from a data element type of a first schema to one of a second schema. In one example embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of canonical data element types belonging to a canonical schem...