ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,698, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to WP SEMANTIX LTD (Ra'anana, Israel).
"System and method for implementing ontologies in SQL" was invented by Amit Weitzner (Ra'anana, Israel) and Jacob Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a virtual ontology over a relational database, comprising: defining a virtual ontology from multiple candidates for a relational database by: declaring a hierarchy of virtual entities; for each virtual entity, declaring a mapping associating the virtual entity with at least a subset of a physical table in the database; storing the virtual entity in association with the ...