ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,218, issued on June 10, was assigned to City Storage Systems LLC (Los Angeles).

"Keyed event queue" was invented by Henning Korsholm Rohde (Seattle), Aravind Velamur Srinivasan (Sammamish, Wash.), Yasser Elsayed (Bothell, Wash.), Paul Rondeau (Vancouver, Canada) and Kristopher Raney (Oak Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Keyed Event Queue (KEQ) is a multi-region, dynamically-scaled message broker for managing a large number of independent strictly-ordered message queues. In this regard, a first request having a first plurality of associated events may be enqueued in a first queue, while a second request having a second plur...