ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,693, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Capital One Financial Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Computer systems and methods for generation of check processing test data" was invented by Keith Smith (Raleigh, N.C.) and Bryce Curtis (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may be installed with software technology for generating anonymized test check data that configures the computing platform to: (i) determine a set of possible code paths encoded within a software application associated with check processing; (ii) based on the determined set of possible code paths and a set of electronic check records for individual chec...