ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,081, issued on July 21, was assigned to Data Culpa Inc. (Carlisle, Mass.).

"Visual alert generation in a data pipeline environment" was invented by J. Mitchell Haile (Carlisle, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to indicate when errors occur in a data pipeline. In some examples, data monitoring circuitry monitors the operations of a data pipeline. The data monitoring circuitry ingests an output data set generated by the pipeline, compares the output data set to an expected output, identifies differences between the output data set and the expected output, and determines when the magn...