ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,285, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for performing a technical recovery in a cloud environment" was invented by Ankit Kothari (Plano, Texas), Ann Hawkins (Midlothian, Va.) and John Samos (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing failover includes: determining one or more cross-regional dependencies and traffic flow of an application in a first cloud environment region, wherein the one or more cross-regional dependencies include a dependency of the application in the first region to one or more applications in at least one other cloud environme...