US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on June 24 for "Network congestion reduction based on routing and matching data packets" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,698, issued on June 24, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Network congestion reduction based on routing and matching data packets" was invented by Oliver Markus Haynold (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transaction processing system includes a quarantine system that delays messages configured to accept a delay before being processed by the data transaction processing system. During periods of heavy network traffic, the imposed delay reduces network congestion by distributing/load leveling messages according to available computing resources. Separating messages over time also reduces the ...