ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,022, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Loading data in a target database system using different synchronization programs" was invented by Knut Stolze (Hummelshain, Germany), Luis Eduardo Oliveira Lizardo (Boeblingen, Germany), Reinhold Geiselhart (Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, Germany) and Felix Beier (Haigerloch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes identifying a query view of a target database system enabling access to a first source table stored in a first target table, executing a load program for a current version of a first source partiti...