ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,778, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for data stream simulation" was invented by Mark Watson (Urbana, Ill.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad (Champaign, Ill.), Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Michael Walters (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Noriaki Tatsumi (Silver Spring, Md.) and Kate Key (Effingham, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud computing system can be configured to generate a synthetic data stream that tracks a reference data stream. A model optimizer of the cloud computing system can receive, from an interface of t...