ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,118,015, issued on Oct. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Adding hierarchy of objects when ingesting and normalizing data from heterogeneous data sources" was invented by Jan Henrik Jonsson (Newport Beach, Calif.), Davor Golac (Seattle), Shobhit Gupta (Seattle), Rajesh Srinivas Wunnava (Torrance, Calif.), Hongtao Liu (San Diego), David Andrew Schwardt (Seattle), Shadie Hijazi (Seattle) and Kuangyou Yao (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein relating to ingesting data objects from various sources and associating them in a hierarchy with a profile. In some aspects, a data obj...