ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,625, issued on March 24, was assigned to Genworth Holdings Inc. (Richmond, Va.).

"System and method for implementing a data quality framework and engine" was invented by Christopher Corrigan (Chesterfield, Va.) and Atul Saurav (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a Metadata-Driven Data Quality Framework and Engine that enables dynamic generation of code for assessing data quality based on qualified metadata content. The Data Quality Framework may be directed to an enterprise scaled application that embodies Data Quality disciplines for good/optimal Data Governance. An ...