ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,022, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for secure communication in cloud computing environments" was invented by Paul Ellis Mayes (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for secure data communication between two devices. A disclosed system responds to a request from an originating communication device in a first network to connect with a communication device in a second network, for communication, by receiving a request from the communication device in the first network, the request inc...