ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,013, issued on April 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using partitions within a distributed database" was invented by Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.), Xiaoguang Zhu (New York) and Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive information indicating a set of parameters for a partition of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) implemented by a distributed database. The set of parameters may include a first parameter indicating a condition for completion of the partition and a second parameter indicating a digital asset wallet of a recipi...