ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,156, issued on July 15, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Data certification process for cloud database platform" was invented by Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.), Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Va.), Syed Shamaz Salim (North Potomac, Md.) and Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing access to records of a database stored on a database server in a cloud database platform are described herein. A data sharing platform may determine a shared view definition for access to the database. The data sharing platform may determine rules that specify crite...