ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,131, issued on April 15, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Metadata driven automatic data integration" was invented by Ugandhar Dasi (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Ramanjaneya Reddy Thirupathi (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving, from a user equipment via a server-to-user equipment application programming interface, a request to store a source file in a target database as a target file compatible with the target database, wherein the request comprises metadata describing the source file, a source database storing the source file, and the target database, determining by an integrat...