ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,835, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Auger Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Efficient determination of quantitative supply chain information" was invented by Gopi Prashanth (Redmond, Wash.), Izzy Doctor (Bellevue, Wash.), Russell Allgor (Seattle) and Mohit Sinha (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extract-transform-load ("ETL") pipeline configured to act on dynamic supply chain data for a subject organization is described. The pipeline is made up of (1) a number of ETL transform nodes, and (2) a number of tables. Tables in a first group are each established to be populated by one of the ETL transform nodes based upon conten...