ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,460, issued on March 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Transaction processing failover" was invented by Jacob Creech (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transaction processing systems in accordance with aspects of the invention may process a variety of transactions. Transaction processing systems may include a transaction processing device and a distributed processing system. The transaction processing device obtains transaction requests from a variety of client devices and process the transaction requests. The distributed processing system may also obtain the transaction requests and maintain ...