ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,012, issued on March 18, was assigned to NASDAQ TECHNOLOGY AB (Stockholm).

"Data extraction with user-configurable extract templates" was invented by Magnus Norrby (Bromma, Sweden), Saker Asllan (London), Yulia Havriuk (Khmelnytsky, Ukraine) and Mikael R. Nilsson (Hagersten, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology relates to systems and techniques for providing efficient and easy-to-use user-customizable extract templates for running queries against databases. The user-customizable extract templates enable customization of the same predefined query according to the requirements and privileges of respective use...