ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,931, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Validating code for an extract, transform, and load process" was invented by Shreya Goddu (Long Island, N.Y.), Arunadevi Ashok Inamdar (Ashburn, Va.), Thomas Barry (New York), Justin David Good (Richmond, Va.), Swaroop Appu Koman (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Mesfin Mulugeta Dinku (Vienna, Va.) and Sean Bourke (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive a request to validate code defining a feature for compliance with a feature authoring library. The code may configure one or more phases of an extract, transform, a...