ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,032, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Pipeline for processing transactions" was invented by Matthew Fellows (San Francisco), Annette Chen (Boston) and Leandra Irvine (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A banking pipeline for processing various transactions for multiple financial instruments is disclosed herein. The pipeline may have three distinct interpreters, a transaction interpreter, a rollup interpreter, and a rules interpreter. Different aspects of the transaction may be performed on separate interpreters and each interpreter may perform its aspect of the transaction befor...