ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,863, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Shipt Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Data ingestion and cleansing tool" was invented by Diego Bauducco (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ingesting data is disclosed. In example embodiments, the method may include receiving a structured data file, such as a comma separated value (CSV) file, and translating the file to an internal schema. Translating the file to the internal schema may including mapping one or more incoming fields of the file to one or more internal fields of the internal schema. The method may further include displaying a user interface and receivi...