ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,796, issued on June 10, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Cloud infrastructure optimization" was invented by Jonathan H. Bryant (McLean, Va.), Jagadesh V. Gadiyaram (Richmond, Va.) and Thomas Caputo (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive at least one test application corresponding to an application profile. The processor may simulate the at least one test application in a non-production environment for a plurality of infrastructure configurations to generate a plurality of test performance results. The processor may evaluate the plurality of test performance results to identify a...