ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,441, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DatasetLinks Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Detection of links among tabular data" was invented by Francisco Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal), Andrzej Grzesik (London), Juan Garcia (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Tomasz Wylezek (Katowice, Poland), Dominik Wiernicki (Warsaw, Poland) and Rui Lopes (Coimbra, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of links among tabular data is disclosed, including: obtaining a set of source data; extract portions from the set of source data to store in cells within a source dataset according to a source schema determined for the set of source data; determining a link bet...