ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,288, issued on May 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Managing execution of data processing jobs in a virtual computing environment" was invented by Ming Yuan (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Vijayalakshmi Veeraraghavan (Palatine, Ill.), Preet Kamal Bawa (Palatine, Ill.), Lance Creath (Chicago) and Alec Fekete (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a job request associated with a data processing job, including job timing data specifying a time at which the data processing job is to be executed by a virtual computing environment. The device may receive user data associated with the job req...