ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,903, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Preventing duplicative file processing" was invented by Alec Bruns (Chicago) and Rajendra Mokshagundam (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may determine whether an existing record for a file, received at a file storage location, is present in a record log. The device may generate, based on determining that the existing record for the file is not present in the record log, a record for the file in the record log. The record may identify the file and a first region. The device may determine, after gen...