ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,088, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for automated data pipeline degradation detection" was invented by Stephanie Margaret Pirman (Chicago), Jeffrey Wayne Texada (Carrollton, Texas) and Eric Joseph DePree (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method analyzes dependency information for a first data store. Upon determining that a data pipeline associates a first log type generated by the first data store with a second log type generated by a second data store, a first number of logs of the first log type that are generated at a first time, a first baseline number...