ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,301, issued on May 19, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A. (New York).

"Data processing across applications in cloud environments" was invented by Hansraj Jain (Chennai, India), Ma Jun (Shanghai), Rajagopalan Premkumar (The Springbloom, Singapore) and Vidyalakshmi Pathai Ramakrishnan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are system and methods for handling processing of data in cloud environments. A server receives a first dataset generated in response to a function of a first application. A server generates a set of identifiers defining a sequence of processing of the first dataset associated with the function. Th...