ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,202, issued on April 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a framework for algorithmically identifying critical software systems and applications within an organization" was invented by Jonathan Underwood (Leighton Buzzard, Great Britain), David L. Houck (Maidens, Va.) and Naoum Anagnos (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems generating real-time notifications of software application importance based on current processing requirements. The method includes receiving a first dataset, wherein the first dataset comprises recovery time estimates for processing requir...