ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,157, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Data pipeline validation" was invented by Vijay Anusuri (Charlotte, N.C.), James Bell (Charlotte, N.C.), Daniel Herrera (Charlotte, N.C.), Michael A. Hopkins (West Des Moines, Iowa), Ramesh Joshi (Charlotte, N.C.), Sameer Joshi (Charlotte, N.C.), Kanth Nagapudi (Charlotte, N.C.) and Kiran Siripurapu (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data pipeline validation system and method configured to partially automate testing of data pipelines in a distributed computing environment. The system includes a data pipeline analytic device equipped with var...