ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,698, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Platform for integrating back-end data analysis tools using schema" was invented by Sandhya Lonial (North Andover, Mass.) and Sajith Vijayan (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with schema-based integration of back-end data analysis tools are described. In one embodiment, an example method includes receiving, through a graphical user interface, a selection of a component function for operation on a first dataset that spans a plurality of back-end tools. The example method trans...