ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,591, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Annotation of a machine learning pipeline with operational semantics to support distributed lineage tracking" was invented by Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.), Raghu Kiran Ganti (White Plains, N.Y.), Carlos Henrique Andrade Costa (White Plains, N.Y.), Linsong Chu (White Plains, N.Y.) and Joshua M. Rosenkranz (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, computer program product, and method are provided for distributed data workflow semantics. A pipeline, such as a machine learning (ML) pipeline, is represented in a da...