ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,973, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods of data sharing across cloud regions and cloud platforms of cloud-based data warehousing systems" was invented by Hiren Shah (Stafford, Va.), Ganesh Bharathan (Henrico, Va.), Sridhar Maramreddy (Glen Allen, Va.), Naga Venkata Sriram Vadakattu (Frisco, Texas) and Naveen Kumar Kilaru (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for sharing data between accounts that are hosted by a cloud-based data warehousing system on different cloud platforms or in different cloud regions of a cloud plat...