ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,204, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TAMR INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Generating and reusing transformations for evolving schema mapping" was invented by Sharon Roth (Boston), Ihab F. Ilyas (Waterloo, Canada), Daniel Meir Bruckner (San Francisco) and Gideon Goldin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of use resolves the frustration of repeated manual work during schema mapping. The system utilizes a transformation graph-a collection of nodes (unified attributes) and edges (transformations) in which source attributes are mapped and transformed. The system further leverages existing mappings and transfo...