ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,144, issued on June 30, was assigned to The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for providing a consolidated data hub" was invented by Mark Gregory Meaden (Pittsburgh) and Chaitanya Vejendla (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a system for data consolidation. The system may include processors, servers, and/or storage devices. Processors in the system may be configurable to perform operations like importing data from, transforming the imported data into a plurality of tables, identifying tables comprising outlier attributes, and modifying the identified tables...