ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,875, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing integration of new data for data pipelines" 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. As new data becomes available for use in the data pipeline, the new data may be automatically evaluated for utility. The evaluation may be made through esta...