ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,114, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Managing relational databases" was invented by Jeffrey Allen Erickson (Farmersville, Texas), Marjorie Ann Bue (Clear Lake, Minn.), Richard Forrest Herwig Jr. (Burnsville, Minn.), Michael Shaun Ogilvie (Little Canada, Minn.), George Reynard Davis Jr. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Denise May Broderick (Zimmerman, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relational database for migrating data in a workflow between databases in different environments. Graphical user interfaces are generated through which database management scripts are automatically generated for mig...