ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,978, issued on March 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Detecting and reducing monitoring redundancies" was invented by Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a redundancy system may receive, from a log storage, a plurality of log files that were generated by a plurality of monitoring programs. The redundancy system may apply a machine learning model to the plurality of log files to detect one or more redundancies. The redundancy system may determine at least one monitoring program, in the plurality of monitoring programs, that is a candidate for removal based on...