ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,459, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Pipeline configuration support" was invented by Vladimir Wasiutinski (Dresden, Germany) and Roberto Usberti Filho (Heddesheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data processing tools often use pipeline-based workflows, which consist of a sequence of operations. Each operation is configured according to configuration settings provided by a pipeline developer. The operations may use other software components such as frameworks that may also be configured. An application developer that defines a series of operations to be performed to achieve a desired result is ab...