US Patent Issued to Ab Initio Technology on March 24 for "Unit testing of components of dataflow graphs" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,574, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Unit testing of components of dataflow graphs" was invented by Edward Alan Bach (Melrose, Mass.), Victor Abaya (Cambridge, Mass.), Matthew Eads (Lexington, Mass.), Carl Offner (Sudbury, Mass.) and Matthew Zinno (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system defines a unit test for a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of executable components. The system receives an indication of a portion of a dataflow graph for testing. The system receives a parameter set indicating expected output data to be generated by execution of a...