ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,257, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VILLAGE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for synchronizing distributed databases" was invented by Nicholaus J. Bauer (Joliet, Ill.), Michael J. Roberts (Elmhurst, Ill.) and Dennis Payonk (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for synchronizing distributed databases are provided. In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a request to determine a schema of a first database and updating a metadata store with the schema. The method includes generating at least one database query. The method includes, responsive to the database query, selectively...