ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,431, issued on April 21, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for serving short-form data requests related to usage of cloud computing resources" was invented by Vivin Deshpande (Virginia Beach, Va.), Rohit Sharma (Sterling, Va.), Ashish Kumar Roy (Richmond, Va.), Nicholas Zolnoor (Fairfax, Va.) and Gurjeet Chinayna (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods disclosed herein allow the cloud services to better apportion cloud resources between multiple cloud services recipients. The systems and methods accomplish this by both accessing the relevant data (e.g., despite ...