ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,752, issued on March 3, was assigned to Reltio Inc. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Matching and merging using metadata configuration based on an n-layer model" was invented by Martin Franklin (San Diego) and Manish Sood (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other techniques, techniques for dynamic survivorship, cross-tenant matching, and lineage entity identifier (EID) promotion are described. A system utilizing these techniques can include an EID assignment engine, a progressive stitching engine, and a data item update engine. The progressive stitching engine can be at least conceptually characterized as comprising a data point ...