ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,829, issued on April 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Techniques for data type detection with learned metadata" was invented by Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Austin Grant Walters (Savoy, Ill.) and Jeremy Edward Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for creating and utilizing multidimensional embedding spaces for data objects, such as to condition the data for input to a neural network, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to detecting data types for structured data based on learned metadata. In many embodiments, ...