ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,848, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Method and system for persisting data" was invented by Frank Thomas (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for persisting data are provided. Batch data is periodically extracted via a computer system from at least one primary data source. Batch data is transformed via the computer system. The batch data is loaded, via the computer system, into a database. Real-time data is continuously received from at least one secondary data source. The received real-time data is indexed in an index. Business intelligence reports are generated from both the real-ti...