ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,733, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Method and system for computer update requirement assignment using a machine learning technique" was invented by John Woloszyn (Dallas), Praveen Kumar Gadipelly (Frisco, Texas), Michael O'Malley (Prosper, Texas), Afsar Khan (Little Elm, Texas), Naga Satya Subbarao Pisupat Venkata Krishna (McKinney, Texas), Travis Landrith (Frisco, Texas) and John Corretti (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel data collection technique is disclosed. This data collection technique gathers data relating to various technical processes implemented in a computer netwo...