ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,416, issued on July 29, was assigned to Qintel LLC (Pittsburgh).
"Generation and storage of data relationships" was invented by John Paul Shiflett (Seven Fields, Pa.), Kevin Robert Moore (New Hartford, N.Y.) and Matthew Karl Geiger (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method for identifying and storing relationships between source data and derivative data. A data relationship identification system identifies derivative data generated from source data. When the derivative data is generated, an identification of the source data corresponding to the derivative data is added to the derivative data. The ...