ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,340, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JITTERBIT INC. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Query processor" was invented by Thomas R. Kennedy Jr. (Miami Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a source independent query language. One of the methods includes receiving a first executable statement, the first executable statement referencing a second set of fields in a table in a relational database, the first executable statement having instructions to cause the database to perform operations on data in the table. The method includes generating a sec...