ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,484, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"System and method for data movement" was invented by Sherman Chung (Toronto), Upal Sayeed Hossain (Toronto), Morgan Aguiar (Toronto) and Laxmi Prasanthi Velamakanni (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing platforms, methods, and storage media for data movement are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a data transfer command including a table-based characterization of a set of data to be transferred; automatically determine, based on the table-based characterization of the data to be transferred, a set of files to be transferred; ...