US Patent Issued to The Toronto-Dominion Bank on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for converting data types in data migration" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,382, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for converting data types in data migration" was invented by Avinash Ban (Mississauga, Canada) and Margot Shepherd-Spurgeon (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for migrating data are provided. A migration application communicates with a source database and a target database, and receives a command to migrate data therebetween. It automatically detects that, for a source data field in the source database that is to be migrated to a target data field in the target database, the source data field is of a fir...