Patents by Inventor Catherine Lyons

Catherine Lyons has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for resolving ambiguity between names and entities
    Patent number: 7925444
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods that utilize an information architecture for disambiguating scientific names and other classification labels and the entities to which those names are applied, as well as a means of accessing data on those entities in a networked environment using persistent, unique identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: George Garrity, Catherine Lyons
  • Systems and methods for resolving ambiguity between names and entities
    Publication number: 20050160059
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods that utilize an information architecture for disambiguating scientific names and other classification labels and the entities to which those names are applied, as well as a means of accessing data on those entities in a networked environment using persistent, unique identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: George Garrity, Catherine Lyons