ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,482, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Smart routing of traffic in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Jignesh Rangwala (Glen Allen, Va.), Soumyajit Ray (Glen Allen, Va.), Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.), Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.), Vamsi Kavuri (Glen Allen, Va.) and Randall Devitto (Orland Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain a codebase, associated with an application and one or more services of the application, that is deployable via both a first framework of the cloud computing environment and a second framework...