ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,006, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Democratized data profiling and validation" was invented by Ajeet Kumar Pandey (Gurgaon, India), Ashish Sehgal (New Delhi), Sumit Sodhi (New Delhi), Pooja Bajaj Malhotra (Gurgaon, India), Achut Perumbala (Phoenix), Vinay Dhingra (Gurgaon, India), Purvi Shailesh Shah (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Phanikalyan Cherukuri (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various approaches performing distributed profiling and validation. A query is generated for profile data for data stored in a data warehouse. Then, the query...