ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,489, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Data definitions and mappings for seamless data import" was invented by Nilesh Suresh Jain (Sterling, Va.), Greg Dimock (Lane Buffalo, N.Y.) and Carsten R. Dreesbach (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for ingesting data using an attribute definition file are disclosed. The system receives an attribute definition file that defines an attribute name, an entity type, and one or more validation criteria for an attribute. The system receives a dataset comprising a plurality of attribute values with a respective plurality of ...