ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,615, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).
"Operationalizing metadata" was invented by Robert Parks (Weston, Mass.) and Jonah Egenolf (Winchester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a metadata model to perform operations on data items, with the metadata model including parent nodes and child nodes connected by edges, with the parent nodes specifying logical metadata and the child nodes specifying physical metadata representing the data items, and with the edges specifying relationships between the nodes. The method includes: identifying a given data item and physical meta...