US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 14 for "Extensible attributes for data warehouses" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,616, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Extensible attributes for data warehouses" was invented by Dylan Wan (Fremont, Calif.), Francoise J. Lawrence (Dublin, Calif.), Justin Hyde (Oakland, Calif.), Amit Goyal (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Saurabh Verma (Cupertino, Calif.) and John D. Poole (Stratford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing extensible attributes in ETL are disclosed. In some examples, attributes configured at a source file may be extracted from the source file. The extracted attributes can be mapped to a target column of a data wareh...