ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,877, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore).

"Systems and methods for organizing data of different local data schemas based on similarity rankings, scoring, and signatures" was invented by George Karabatis (Ellicott City, Md.), Andreas Behrend (Cologne, Germany) and Leonard Traeger (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for organizing data of different local data schemas based on similarity rankings, scoring, and signatures are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system for identifying linkages among entities. The system also includes an entity linkage manager con...