ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,068, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Managing provenance information for data processing pipelines" was invented by Sambit Nayak (Orissa, India), Fredrik Svensson (Loberod, Sweden) and Anshu Shukla (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing provenance information associated to one or more interconnected provenance entities in a provenance system for data processing pipelines in a distributed cloud environment over a network interface, wherein each of the data processing pipelines is configured to read in data, transform the data, and output transfor...