ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,022, issued on March 18, was assigned to Humana Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Cloud platform based data mesh architecture for data pipelines" was invented by Yuan Yao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew McPherron (San Diego), Tom Ho (San Jose, Calif.) and Bing Zhang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs continuous delivery of a data pipeline on a cloud platform. The system receives a specification of the data pipeline that is split into smaller specifications of data pipeline units. The system identifies a target cloud platform and generates a deployment package for each data pipeline unit for the target cloud pl...