ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,900, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Unified data classification techniques" was invented by Youngja Park (Princeton, N.J.), Mohammed Fahd Alhamid (North York, Canada), Stefano Braghin (Dublin), Jing Xin Duan (Toronto), Mokhtar Kandil (Toronto), Michael Vu Le (Danbury, Conn.), Killian Levacher (Dublin), Micha Gideon Moffie (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Ian Michael Molloy (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Walid Rjaibi (Markham, Canada) and Ariel Farkash (Shimshit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for data processing, comprising obtainin...