ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,709, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Annotation of a machine learning pipeline with operational semantics" was invented by Raghu Kiran Ganti (White Plains, N.Y.), Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.) and Carlos Henrique Andrade Costa (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 pipeline, is represented in a data flow graph (DFG) with nodes and edges. The represented nodes are configured to be annotated with an operational semantic...