ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,350, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Meta-data driven ingestion and data processing" was invented by Marshall A. Isman (Newton, Mass.), Adam Weiss (Lexington, Mass.), Jonah Egenolf (Winchester, Mass.), Robert Parks (Weston, Mass.), John MacLean (Bilgola Plateau, Australia), Richard Mellon (Winchester, Mass.), Dusan Radivojevic (North Andover, Mass.), Paul Veiser (Heathmont, Australia) and Mazin Woodrow Khader (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a data processing system for enabling a system to pipeline or otherwise process data in conformance with spe...