ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,288, issued on March 18, was assigned to Synchrony Bank (Stamford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for scalable randomized selection with enforced proportionality across distributed systems" was invented by Richard Carrasco (Stamford, Conn.), David Chau (Stamford, Conn.) and Nitish Asgekar (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data selection systems and techniques are described. For instance, a system receives a data set with a plurality of data elements. The system generates a plurality of random values. The system generates a ranking of the plurality of random values. The system selects a subset of the plurality of data ele...