ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,414, issued on June 24, was assigned to Exegy Inc. (St. Louis).

"Methods and systems for low latency generation and distribution of hidden liquidity size estimates" was invented by David Edward Taylor (St. Louis), Andy Young Lee (Ballwin, Mo.) and David Vincent Schuehler (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein that compute trading signals with low latency and high throughput using highly parallelized compute resources such as integrated circuits, reconfigurable logic devices, graphics processor units (GPUs), multi-core general purpose processors, and/or chip multi-processors (CMPs). For exam...