US Patent Issued to VEDA Data Solutions on Oct. 14 for "Efficient column detection using sequencing, and applications thereof" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,614, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VEDA Data Solutions Inc. (Madison, Wis.).

"Efficient column detection using sequencing, and applications thereof" was invented by Robert Raymond Lindner (Fitchburg, Wis.) and Carlos Vera-Ciro (Madison, 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 uses evidence for a label within the column itself. In addition, the method uses likelihoods that a first label may exist at a particular location in a data file with respect to a second label. Finally, the method uses likelihoods that a ...