ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,413, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).
"Metadata change triggers" was invented by Robert Parks (Weston, Mass.) and Halldor Gylfason (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a data processing system for automatically detecting a change in entities of a first entity class, and, in response to the detecting, generating a notification specifying that a change relating to a second entity class has been detected, including: storing an entity model for entity classes; determining that a notification is to be generated upon detection of a change to entities of a fi...