ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,683, issued on June 2, was assigned to Capital One Financial Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Computer systems and methods for watchlist screening" was invented by Weiyi Jia (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Xiaochen Zhang (Frederick, Md.), Fang Bai (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Ahreum Amy Han Park (Phoenix), Chakradhar Yedurupaka (Georgetown, Texas) and Dong Yan (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform is configured to (i) obtain a first set of watchlist data entries for parties that appear on one or more watchlists and a second set of screened data entries for parties that are to be screened against the one or more watchlists; (i...