ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,543, issued on March 4, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Configuration-based development of analytics pipelines" was invented by Gurudatta Pai (Matthews, N.C.), Menglin Cao (Danville, Calif.), Prahalad Thota (San Ramon, Calif.), Thomas Mann (Charlotte, N.C.), Braxton Meyer (Grafton, Wis.) and Ravindra Reddy Pathakota (TegaCay, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques relating to development of data flow pipelines. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes accessing, by a computing system, metadata identifying characteristics of a data flow pipeline; generat...