ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,143, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for remediating misalignment of a data pipeline" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel), Hanna Yehuda (Acton, Mass.) and Inga Sogaard (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a data pipeline are disclosed. To manage the data pipeline, a system may include one or more data sources, a data repository, and one or more downstream consumers. Data obtained from a data source external to the system may have unexpected characteristics that may cause misalignment of one or more applica...