ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,133, issued on April 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic data linting rules for ETL pipelines" was invented by Ignacio Agustin Manzano (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Subhash Periasamy (Newark, Calif.), Berkay Polat (Redwood City, Calif.), Anand Nair (Mountain House, Calif.), Udayakumar Dhansingh (Dublin, Calif.), Vijay Gopalakrishnan (Seattle) and Saebom Kwon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, systems and methods are described for allowing a non-code user to create to transform a database in an ETL pipeline. Specifically, as disclosed herein, a user can take a database and ...