ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,990, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (New York).

"Model-based data transformation" was invented by Edward J. Miller Jr. (Iola, Kan.), Daniel R. Hursh (Dayton, Ohio), Alexis S. Pecoraro (Huntersville, N.C.), Pankaj Agrawal (Concord, N.C.), James G. Rauscher (Erie, Colo.) and John V. Hintze (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for model-based data transformation. An example method includes: receiving a source graph model describing a source data structure, wherein the source graph model comprises a source root node associated with a plur...