ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,851, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"CRON-based routing machines and processes to schedule and execute java code excerpts across fault-tolerant load-balanced distributed servers running JVM namespaces" was invented by Mark Streitman (East Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing process schedules and executes Java code excerpts across backend servers. A route table contains routes to be executed in JVM namespaces on servers and identifies for each route a Jar file containing applicable classes and methods to be executed at a CRON time. During execution, methods are retrieved ...