ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,653, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for mitigating latency issues between cloud computing components featuring relational databases without requiring session persistence using state-specific communication reference directories" was invented by Adarsh Kochhar (Mississauga, Canada), Autumn Thomas (Jersey City, N.J.), Kevin O'Sullivan (New York), Peter Aherne (New York), Rajat Kedia (London), Tim Michael (London), Vidhi Khatri (Mississauga, Canada), Vidhir Kaup (Mississauga, Canada) and Vinod Rajaram (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mitigating la...