ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,690, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Service chain for complex configuration-driven data quality rationalization and data control" was invented by Lance Creath (Chicago), Jason Kabel (Palmyra, Va.) and Ming Yuan (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data quality analysis may include the determination of data quality metrics using reconfigurable quality components. Access to the data may be based on the determined quality metrics. The configurable quality components may determine quality metrics for corresponding datasets. The quality components may be configured...