ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,174, issued on May 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Change monitoring and detection for a cloud computing environment" was invented by Daniel W. File (Baltimore), Hao Liu (Reston, Va.), Rajesh Kanna Durairaj (Plano, Texas) and Peter Terrana (Mechanicsville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein allow for systems and methods to monitor production changes to resources in a cloud computing environment and determine whether those changes were performed in accordance with a change management policy. A change order monitoring application receives data from cloud computing audit logs to dete...