ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,173, issued on June 30, was assigned to ONTOFORCE NV (Ghent, Belgium).

"Automated extract, transform, and load process" was invented by Kenny Knecht (Mariakerke, Belgium), Paul Vauterin (Drongen, Belgium) and Hans Constandt (Schepdaal, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for an automated extract, transform, and load process for a target database comprising linked data. During the data transformation phase linked data elements are added as data to a data set."

The patent was filed on Nov. 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/948,698.

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