ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,263, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Transparent data transformation and access for workloads in cloud environments" was invented by Ioannis Gkoufas (East Road, Ireland), Christian Pinto (Dublin), Srikumar Venugopal (Dublin) and Stefano Braghin (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing data transformation includes installing one or more data transformation plugins in a dataset made accessible for processing an end user's workload. A dataset-specific policy for the accessible dataset is ingested. A data transformation of the accessible ...