US Patent Issued to Overstock.com on March 18 for "System and method of mapping product attributes between different schemas" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,508, issued on March 18, was assigned to Overstock.com Inc. (Midvale, Utah).

"System and method of mapping product attributes between different schemas" was invented by Ian Robertson (Salt Lake City), John Dettmer (Salt Lake City), Heath Eldeen (Salt Lake City), Greg Heckenberg (Salt Lake City), Dan Harris (Salt Lake City), Nariman Noursalehi (Salt Lake City), Steve Culy (Salt Lake City), Giri Vislawath (Sandy, Utah) and Cameron Roe (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described for mapping product attributes between schemas of e-commerce websites. Using a pre-defined reverse mapping, a mapping server populates...