ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,213, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for state machine-based orchestration of performance testing for cloud computing resources" was invented by Nicholas Efseaff (Washington), Alexander Misihowsky (Jersey City, N.J.), Mohan Kumar Arja (Newark, Del.), Theodore Timothy John (West Chester, Pa.), Nicholas Visalli (Baltimore) and Andrew Yocca (Dana Point, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for orchestrating application performance testing using state machines. For instance, at least a portion of information included in a request to run a...