ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,853, issued on May 20, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Dimension and fact table creation using templates" was invented by Bennie Alfons Haelen (Anthem, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a dimension table or a fact table for a data warehouse includes accessing an ordered sequence of activities that are arranged in a template. A first set of code associated with creating the dimension table is organized into a dimension processing class, a second set of code associated with creating the fact table is organized into a fact processing class, and a third set of code associated with creat...