US Patent Issued to Ab Initio Technology on Sept. 22 for "Techniques for pre-assignment validation of data managed by a data processing system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,431, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Techniques for pre-assignment validation of data managed by a data processing system" was invented by David Clemens (Cambridge, Mass.) and Roy Procops (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide techniques of enforcing valid data assignments in a data processing system in which data can be dynamically updated by user devices and/or computerized processes. The techniques identify, using a validation rule associated with a data entity, one or more valid values for assignment to an attribute of an instance of the data e...