ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,572, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Method to track and clone data artifacts associated with distributed data processing pipelines" was invented by Annmary Justine Koomthanam (Bangalore, India), Suparna Bhattacharya (Bangalore, India), Aalap Tripathy (Houston), Sergey Serebryakov (Milpitas, Calif.), Martin Foltin (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and Paolo Faraboschi (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provide for automatically constructing data lineage representations for distributed data processing pipelines. These data lineage representations (...