ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,395, issued on June 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and systems for propagating a stopping condition in a distributed multiple-producer, multiple-consumer system" was invented by Ankur Ankur (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for propagating a stopping condition through a multiple-producer, multiple-consumer distributed system. The method includes determining the number of active processes in a process layer, determining that a stopping condition is satisfied, generating a sentinel in a source queue, receiving a processing task at a process, determining whether the pr...