ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,706, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Capital One Financial Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Reconciliation systems and methods for unbounded streams" was invented by Duncan Stewart (London) and Alok Dwivedi (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to (i) detect a window open sentinel indicating one or more reconciliation rules for a window within an unbounded stream of events, (ii) detect a shard open sentinel indicating one or more reconciliation rules for the shard, (iii) receive a set of events produced within the shard, (iv) detect a shard close sentinel indicating producer-generated reconc...