ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,736, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Revefi Inc. (Sammamish, Wash.).

"Automated data observability system" was invented by Sanjay Agrawal (Sammamish, Wash.), Shashank Gupta (Sammamish, Wash.) and Pramod Kalipatnapu (Sammamich, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated data observation system, platform, and corresponding methods and non-transitory computer readable medium include periodically obtaining metadata, automatically generating data quality metrics, obtaining predicted values for the data quality metrics, determining a first anomaly, generating a data pipeline graph, and estimating a root cause relating to the fi...