ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,983, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for reducing system performance degradation due to excess traffic" was invented by Mohamed Seck (McLean, Va.) and Louis Buell (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method is provided for mitigating data service system performance degradation due to excess user traffic. A traffic assessment and management server (TAMS) retrieves historical time-varying environment information and transaction data for a data service processing system (DSPS). The TAMS receives a set of expected environment conditions for a future time in...