ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,755, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for generating identifiers with a low likelihood of collisions for a prolonged time duration" was invented by Parag Jain (Falls Church, Va.), Sheldon Marshall (Vienna, Va.), Rishab Mitra (New York), Rakesh Gupta (Gainesville, Va.), Bharath Mogali (Centreville, Va.), Anirudha Simha (Ashburn, Va.), Dean Foster (Rockville, Md.), Brett Latour (Sterling, Va.) and Shashwat Rastogi (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations described herein relate to a system for generating identifiers. The system receives, from a devi...