ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,419, issued on March 25, was assigned to VEDA Data Solutions Inc. (Madison, Wis.).

"Efficient data processing to identify information and reformat data files, and applications thereof" was invented by Carlos Vera-Ciro (Madison, Wis.) and Robert Raymond Lindner (Fitchburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for identifying demographic information in a data file. The method may include: receiving the data file containing a plurality of fields of demographic information from a third-party, the data file having inconsistent or mislabeled nomenclatures for one or more fields of t...