ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,939, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Managing pre-provisioning and post-provisioning of resources using bitemporal analysis" was invented by Brian Lee Wong (Midlothian, Va.), Virendra K. Abelak (Ashburn, Va.), Steven Lott (McLean, Va.) and Philip Austin Kedy (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed are directed to ensuring resource compliance within a cloud-based environment. The embodiments include steps for performing both pre-provisioning and post-provisioning checks of resources, such as network protocols, prior to and after their deployment within the cloud-bas...