ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,043, issued on April 7, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for merging networks of heterogeneous data" was invented by Christopher John Merz (Wildwood, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for merging heterogeneous data types are provided. The method includes receiving a first corpus of first data, the first data includes an indicator of an interaction between a first element of the first corpus of first data and a second element of the first corpus of first data, receiving a second corpus of second data, the second data includes an indication of an interaction betwe...