ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,672, issued on March 4, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Cloud data ingestion system" was invented by Prashant Parekh (McLean, Va.) and Ramesh Chandra (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies a plurality of virtualization elements executing on a cloud computing environment. The computing system retrieves a first set of data related to software resources executing across the plurality of virtualization elements. The computing system retrieves a second set of data related to hardware resources associated with the plurality of virtualization elements. The computing system retrieve...