ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,252, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Extensible data platform with database domain extensions" was invented by Mehmet Kadri Umay (Redmond, Wash.), Imran Siddique (Bellevue, Wash.), Nayana Singh Patel (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Jyothsna Devi Bijjam (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system that includes one or more server computing devices including one or more processors configured to execute instructions for a domain extensibility module that provides software development tools for building domain extensions for a database platform, and a data ingestion...