ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,229, issued on April 7, was assigned to Synchrony Bank (Stamford, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for loading large datasets across cloud networks" was invented by David Chau (Stamford, Conn.) and Tarun Saha (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed acquisition environment downloads a snapshot of a large dataset from one or more remote environments. The download may occur regularly to enable the distributed acquisition environment to operate on a nearly up-to-date instance of the large dataset. The download may begin when a computing device receives a request to load a dataset into memory of the distributed acquisiti...