US Patent Issued to Kinaxis on Sept. 30 for "Transparent access to an external data source within a data server" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,336, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Transparent access to an external data source within a data server" was invented by Jian Wu (Ottawa), Adrian Petrescu (Ottawa), Hung Nguyen (Ottawa), Yingbei Lu (Ottawa), Harveer Singh (Ottawa) and Daniel Lee (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods that do not require loading data into memory to perform daily activities of an application. The data from an external source can be accessed externally and utilized (for example, in a workbook or via a dashboard, etc.) the same way as in-memory data. This is useful when an external dat...