ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,345, issued on July 1, was assigned to CLARI INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automated consistent implementation of formula fields" was invented by Brian Becker (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Songer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Simon Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device may obtain, from a remote data source, a first database formula having a first syntax. The processing device may translate the first database formula to a normalized database formula having a normalized syntax and obtain, from the remote data source, data that is associated with the first database formula. The processing device may update...