ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,396, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Centralized product catalog with standardization from independent data sources" was invented by Magesh Kesavapillai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a centralized product catalog with standardization from independent data sources are described. In one embodiment, a computing system is configured to access and download product information for a plurality of products that is maintained in a non-standard format. Metadata is identified and extracted. Feature vectors may be...