ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,996, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Facilitating data transformations" was invented by Yeye He (Redmond, Wash.), Kris K. Ganjam (Redmond, Wash.), Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.) and Surajit Chaudhuri (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for facilitating data transformations, according to embodiments of the present invention. In one embodiment, a set of example values including example input values that indicate data values to be transformed and example output va...