ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,577, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Operating a data pipeline based on data privacy regulations" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel), Hanna Yehuda (Acton, Mass.) and Inga Sogaard (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a data pipeline are disclosed. To manage operation of a data pipeline when a portion of data is inaccessible may require generating synthetic portion of data to generalize the inaccessible portion of data. Prior to the generation of the synthetic portion of data, an analysis of an intended use of the inaccessib...