ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,852, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying anomalous transformations using lineage data" was invented by Rajmohan Chandrahasan (Kanchipuram, India), Himanshu Gupta (New Delhi), Sameep Mehta (Bangalore, India), Emma Rose Tucker (Austin, Texas) and Andrzej Jan Wrobel (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying anomalous transformations using lineage data are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating a set of column profiles for a corresponding set of columns within one or more datas...