ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,429, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Virtual machine for ETL transformations" was invented by Daniel Bos (Beijing), Qing Liu (Beijing) and Tobias Karpstein (Eschelbronn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for transforming data from a format of a source system into a format of a target system based on a dedicated virtual machine. In one example, a method may include storing programming code which comprises logic for transforming data from a source system to a target format of a target system, compiling the programming code into bytecode, generating a work order which i...