ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,129, issued on June 17, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Secure message processing protocol" was invented by Priteshkumar Soni (Naperville, Ill.) and Madhur Sirohi (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing electronic data messages mitigate the transmission of one or more electronic messages including a sequence of data as a plurality of packets characterized by a sequence therebetween corresponding to the sequence of the data of the electronic message, each packet including data indicative of the sequence of that packet relative to the others of the plurality of pa...