ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,490, issued on March 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for ranking of database tables for use with extract, transform, load processes" was invented by Krishnan Ramanathan (Bengaluru, India), Aman Madaan (Pittsburgh) and Somashekhar Pammar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with various embodiments, described herein are systems and methods for use with an analytic applications environment, for ranking of database tables for use in controlling extract, transform, load (ETL) processes. In accordance with an embodiment, the system uses a ranking algori...