ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,390, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using statistical dispersion in data process generation" was invented by Gunther Havel (McLean, Va.) and Ashwin Assysh Sharma (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating data integrity processes using measures of statistical dispersion (e.g., gini impurities) of dataset features. The described mechanism may be also be used for selection and dimensionality reduction. Dimensionality reduction may enable storing the dataset using less storage space or performing other operations on the dataset using ...