US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on June 2 for "Automatic database schema update from one schema to another" (Irish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,649, issued on June 2, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Automatic database schema update from one schema to another" was invented by Vladut Druta (Dublin), Dawid Nowak (Dublin) and John Allen (Newcastle, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for updating a database schema. The method comprises reading (101a, 101b) and then comparing (102) first and second database schemata. Tasks are then generated (103) in dependence on the comparison. The tasks are for converting a database defined by the first schema into a database defined by the second schema. The tasks are then...