ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,895, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing a data pipeline using a digital twin" 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 the data pipeline, a system may include one or more data sources, a data repository, and one or more downstream consumers. Updates to the data pipeline may cause the data pipeline to become misaligned. To avoid misalignment and, therefore, failure of the data pipe...