ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,537, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Games Global Operations Ltd. (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"Scheduler for transaction processing system, and system incorporating such scheduler" was invented by Grant Michael Smith (Union Mills, Isle of Man), Scott Xavier Dukes (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) and Matthew John Harris (Berkhamsted, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implementation may involve: receiving, by a web site, selection of a server application, wherein the server application is associated with a path, wherein the path includes a set of steps, wherein the set of steps is associated with program logic to perform a se...