ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,591, issued on March 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Visual data merge pipelines" was invented by Manohar Malapati (Plano, Texas), Ramakrishna Chowdary Somepalli (Plano, Texas) and Manav Jain (Broadlands, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a data merger may receive a configuration associated with a first data source. The data merger may receive a configuration associated with a second data source. The data merger may receive a configuration associated with a first output endpoint. The data merger may receive an indication of a first transformation to apply to first data received fr...