ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,625, issued on May 5, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System for performing data transformations using a set of independent software components" was invented by Meher Ram Janyavula (Frisco, Texas), Arunkumar Rajappan (Dallas) and Muralikumar Venkatasubramaniam (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system (and method) that provides a framework for performing data transformations, which may be part of an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) process. The system may perform a data transformation by creating a pipeline that executes a set of independent software components (or component, plugins,...