ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,254, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Database data replication tool" was invented by Yoann Baumert (Nanterre, France), Clement Delaunay (Nanterre, France) and Daniel-Florin Chis (Nanterre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data replication between databases is provided. The method comprises receiving, through an API integrated into a data replication tool, a request from a system of record (SoR) application for a replication setup and initialization. A number of data instances are imported through the API from a source database associated with the SoR. A manager engine integrated into the data repli...