US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 20 for "In-database data cleansing and independent store of clean data" (Canadian, Indian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,812, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"In-database data cleansing and independent store of clean data" was invented by Pedro Miguel Barbas (Dunboyne, Ireland), Shaikh Shahriar Quader (Oshawa, Canada), Adrian Mahjour (Toronto), Hima Patel (Bengaluru, India) and Nitin Gupta (Saharanpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleansing operation is performed on data of a data structure to obtain clean data. The clean data is stored as part of the data structure; however, the clean data is independent of the data. A mapping is performed to provide a set of ordered data that includes ...