ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,127, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting labels of a data catalog incorrectly assigned to data set fields" was invented by Orna Raz (Haifa, Israel), Yannick Saillet (Stuttgart, Germany), Maya Zohar (Haifa, Israel) and Marcel Zalmanovici (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for detecting labels incorrectly assigned to data set fields. The data of each data set field, such as those data set fields assigned to the same label, are represented using a set of characteristics. The data set fields are then clustered into clusters based on the ...