ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,383, issued on June 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Enforcing data ownership at gateway registration using natural language processing" was invented by Christian Carroll (Frisco, Texas), Madhav Ayyagari (Frisco, Texas), Terrence Mower (Plano, Texas) and Amit Pandey (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enforcing data ownership may include receiving a request to register an application programming interface (API) endpoint. A plurality of elements of the API endpoint and a target API endpoint may be preprocessed. A distance may be computed for each of element of the API endpoint relative to at least ...