ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,316, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Database creation and collision reduction" was invented by Dennis J. Mire (Dallas), Puneet Goyal (Bangalore, India), Siddharth Gupta (Lucknow, India), Srinivas Kumar (Chennai, India), Deepak Sundararaj (Puneet, Texas) and Oron Hazi (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium for proving feedback on database instructions, identifying, for example, existing patterns and providing suggested replacement instructions. This may have the effect of improving the efficiency of instructions used to create and/or manipulate...