ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,093, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Semantic versioning calculator for data products" was invented by Jenna Lau-Caruso (Holland Landing, Canada), Lior Aronovich (Thornhill, Canada), Priya Unnikrishnan (Richmond Hill, Canada), Wing Hon Lee (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Leigh Chen (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for receiving evaluation criteria comprising rules for evaluating changes to a data file, where the data file comprises a plurality of assets. The method may further include detecting at least one change to one or more ass...