ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,153, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Capital One Financial Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Trace context over file transfer communications" was invented by Josh Gavant (Skokie, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to (i) receive, from an upstream computing system, a message including (a) data content related to a distributed financial transaction that spans the upstream computing system, the computing system, and a downstream computing system, and (b) a global context identifier that identifies the distributed financial transaction, (ii) decide to execute, as part of the distributed financial transaction, a fil...