ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,969, issued on July 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"In-database data cleansing" was invented by Pedro Miguel Barbas (Dunboyne, Ireland), Shaikh Shahriar Quader (Oshawa, Canada), Adrian Mahjour (Toronto), Hima Patel (Bengaluru, India) and Nitin Gupta (Saharanpur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleansing operation defined for a data structure of a database managed by a database management system is obtained. The cleansing operation is performed on data of the data structure to obtain clean data. The cleansing operation that is defined for the data structure and performed on data of the...