ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,978, issued on June 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Aggregating updates for a distributed database using a queue" was invented by Luke Kiowski (Chicago), Babu Mannar (Little Elm, Texas), Venkateshwar Parpelli (Frisco, Texas) and Yang Chen (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive a set of update expressions associated with updating one or more items in the distributed database. The device may store the set of update expressions in an input queue. The device may aggregate, based on a value of a parameter satisfying a threshold, the set of update expressions t...