ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,422, issued on July 8, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Dynamic query allocation to virtual warehouses" was invented by Praveen Kandukuri (Ashburn, Va.), Syed Salim (North Potomac, Md.), Karamchandradatt Hardatt (Glen Allen, Va.), Nagender Gurram (Glen Allen, Va.), Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.) and Yudhish Batra (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing and selecting virtual warehouses for execution of queries on one or more data warehouses are described herein. A request to execute a query may be received. An execution plan, for the query, may be identifie...