ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,698, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for computer-implemented ingestion and schema-governed validation of structured data files using executable metadata tokens" was invented by Qing Gong (Cary, N.C.), Murilo Machado Brizzotti (Cary, N.C.), Kimberly W. Lewis (Morehead City, N.C.), Samuel Duemler (Raleigh, N.C.) and Joshua Rony (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product include receiving, via an API server, an upload request that includes a logical table reference parameter and a structured data file. A table metadata sch...