ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,628, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Synchronization of data records" was invented by Delphine Caron (Le Rouret, France), Julien Antoine Emmanuel Cuny (Mouans-Sartoux, France), David Triscornia (Mouans-Sartoux, France), Vicente Zepeda Cabral (Nice, France) and Federica Spiriti (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an aggregator server of synchronizing data records responsive to variable update notifications includes: receiving, from a provider system, an update notification corresponding to a master data object at the provider system; retrieving a record containing a local data o...