ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,396, issued on July 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Utilizing artificial intelligence to make a prediction about an entity based on user sentiment and transaction history" was invented by Joni Bridget Jezewski (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receives comment information that is associated with users and includes comments provided by the users, about an entity, via social media sources, and receives transaction information that is associated with the users and includes financial transactions of the users with the entity. The device determines correlations between the comment informa...