ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,814, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Metadata based mapping assist" was invented by Ramkumar Ramalingam (Theni, India), Subhojeet Pramanik (Kolkata, India), Jothiponsundar Radhakrishnan (Bangalore, India), Saptarshi Misra (Kolkata, India), Nagarjuna Surabathina (Prakasam district, India) and Matu Agarwal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining source schema metadata, wherein the source schema metadata is associated with fields of a source schema; obtaining...