ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,204, issued on June 30.

"Efficient data indexing across multiple ontology-based databases" was invented by James Baker (Maidenhead, Great Britain), Xavier Falco (London), Samuel Flavio Barroso Souza (London), Helen Yu (New York), Yixun Xu (Jersey City, N.J.), Amr Al Mallah (Tacoma, Wash.) and Arseny Bogomolov (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for indexing changes to an ontology into multiple databases and related methods are disclosed. The system is programmed to receive original data from data sources, transform the original data to ontology data, represent the ontology data in multiple forms respectively in th...