US Patent Issued to Ab Initio Technology on July 21 for "Machine learning techniques for discovering keys in relational datasets" (Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,166, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Machine learning techniques for discovering keys in relational datasets" was invented by Andrew Chang (Westford, Mass.), Richard Oberdorf (Spokane, Wash.), Song Wang (Westford, Mass.) and Nathan Smith (Signal Mountain, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for discovering primary, unique, and/or foreign keys for relational datasets are described. The techniques include profiling the relational datasets to obtain respective data profiles; identifying one or more primary key candidates for a first relational dataset using a first data profil...