ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,547, issued on June 16, was assigned to EXIGER HOLDINGS INC. (New York).

"Entity resolution and consolidation using a unique identifier" was invented by Brandon Daniels (Henrico, Va.), Skyler Chi (New York) and Jonathan Ganucheau (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide entity resolution and consolidation using a unique identifier for data with complex relationships gathered across a computer network from a plurality of sources. According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processing device, supply chain data. The method also includes analyzing, by the processing devi...