''The Crossflo acquisition, for $7.4M in Patriot Scientific stock and $2.6M in cash, puts Patriot Scientific in the midst of the market for users of disparate databases to seamlessly share information in a controlled fashion. Crossflo’s personnel, in fact, helped define the government’s standard for data sharing, the major version being “NIEM” (National Information Exchange Model), and will soon be filing patents on additions to Crossflo’s software core that largely automate the use of this and other federally mandated standards. ''

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''Crossflo’s involvement in the creation of federally-mandated data-sharing standards, such as the National Information Exchange Model, known more commonly as NIEM, has earned Crossflo the opportunity to command a leadership position in the new world of public sector data sharing.''

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