US Patent Issued to Ab Initio Technology on May 26 for "Metadata-driven data ingestion" (Massachusetts, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,323, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Metadata-driven data ingestion" was invented by Dusan Radivojevic (North Andover, Mass.), Robert Parks (Weston, Mass.), Adam Weiss (Lexington, Mass.), Maja Jankovic (Medford, Mass.) and John Vickery (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system for increasing the speed of preparing data with a specified data quality for storage by automatically identifying for a user, with minimal user input, common contexts among (i) fields in disparate datasets, and (ii) names the user has specified as potentially describing the fields, and by using t...