ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,607, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Intelligent data ingestion" was invented by Aravind Sundar (Bristol, Great Britain), Naveen Baskaran (Chennai, India), Rajkumar Selvaraj (Chennai, India), Janarthanan Venu (Chennai, India) and Kavitha Pradeepkumar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent data ingestion is provided. A determined column header name of a selected column in an imported data file is mapped to a predicted corresponding column header name of a particular column in a database corresponding to a human capital management application using a plurality of machine learning model...