ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,113, issued on March 17, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Bidirectional schema modification on tree-structured schemas" was invented by Theodore Johnson (New York) and Divesh Srivastava (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for transforming data instances between two tree-structured schemas using a collection of bidirectional tree-structured schema modification operations."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2021, under Application No. 17/496,964.

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