ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,498, issued on July 7, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Data pipeline controller" was invented by James Fan (San Ramon, Calif.), Jeffrey Aaron (Atlanta), Sanjay Agraharam (Marlboro, N.J.), Arun Gupta (Manalapan, N.J.), Michelle Martens (Freehold, N.J.) and Steven Polston (Flemington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a first ontology of a first type of data pipeline component, map the first ontology to a second ontology for a second type of data pipeline component that is stored in a catalog of data pipeline component types, provide a second d...