US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Jan. 20 for "Facilitating distributed job execution" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,228, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Facilitating distributed job execution" was invented by Jason Devlin (Allen, Texas) and Kshitij Koushik (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating distributed job execution without a central job scheduler. The system may cause a container to, prior to executing job execution code for a job associated with a job data record, update a record instance of the job data record to indicate an updated status for the job and attempt to update the job data record at a database based on the record instanc...