ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,866, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Humana Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Managing access control of data pipelines configured on a cloud platform" was invented by Tian Lai (Louisville, Ky.), Yuan Yao (Louisville, Ky.) and Bing Zhang (Louisville, Ky.).

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 comprising data pipeline units. The system generates a deployment package for each data pipeline unit for a cloud platform. The system provisions computing infrastructure on the cloud platform according to the system configurati...