ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,864, issued on June 24, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in pointing of datasets" was invented by Marcus Fluty (Ellisville, Mo.), Nick Scholle (St. Peters, Mo.) and James David Lorenz (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for pointing associated with datasets. One example method comprises loading data to a first dataset and accessing, by one or more objects of a platform, data from the first dataset, via a connector including an intermediate dataset and extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) process or a dataset view of the platfor...