ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,285, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ID BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LTD. (Woking, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for semantics based generation of connections between separate data sets" was invented by Alberto Pascual Montano (Paracuellos de Jarama, Spain), Shun Mao (Katy, Texas) and Scott Weiss (Loveland, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for identifying connections between data items in an updatable data repository includes dynamically receiving a plurality of data items, each data item including one or more controlled terms, displaying the dynamically received data items on a display, and identifying one or...