ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,162, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Extensible data transformations" was invented by Kris K. Ganjam (Redmond, Wash.), Yeye He (Redmond, Wash.), Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.) and Surajit Chaudhuri (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for facilitating data transformations, according to embodiments of the present invention. In one embodiment, a set of example values are received. A repository of transformation tools is searched to identify a new transformation...