ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,893, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Data governance systems and methods" was invented by Pierre Franquin (Lexington, Mass.), Ken Krigelman (Lexington, Mass.), Andrew Schon (Lexington, Mass.) and Justin Voshell (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to a method for use in connection with governance of a plurality of data assets managed by a data processing system, the method comprising: using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: accessing a data governance policy comprising a first data standard (e.g., by obtaining information about the...