Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Assigned Patent on Data Matching

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Jul 14, 2014 | B2B Marketing, Business Information, Credit Information, Data Aggregation, Data Enrichment, Data Integration, Data Matching, Dun & Bradstreet, Member, Member News, United States | 0 |

Nine employees of D&B are named as co-inventors – Congratulations

BIIA member Dun & Bradstreet has been assigned a patent (8,768,914) developed by nine co-inventors for a “system and method for searching and matching databases.

The co-inventors are Anthony J. Scriffignano, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, David Allaway, Parsippany, New Jersey, Eric Gustafson, Palm Beach, Florida,Amy Hayenhjelm, Murray Hill, New Jersey, Edward Ohlson, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Courtney Shipman, Murray Hill, New Jersey, Larry Skahill, Parsippany, New Jersey, Sudip Chakraborty, New Providence, New Jersey, and Ajay Pillai, New Providence, New Jersey.

The patent application was filed on June 2, 2008 (12/156,523). The full-text of the patent is available here.

Source: 4-traders.com

About The Author

Joachim Bartels

Joachim C Bartels is a co-founder, director, head of information resources and Editor-in-Chief of BIIA. In his capacity as Editor-in-Chief he is responsible for the selection of relevant information content concerning industry insights, trends, technological developments, standards and policies impacting BIIA members in particular and the business information industry in general.

The BIIA library is approaching 10,000 news items and best demonstrated practices. BIIA members receive regular news alerts on key developments in the industry and the regulatory environment. The BIIA readership is widespread: between 4 to 5 thousand unique visitors access BIIA.com per month.