ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,270, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HiveMQ GmbH (Landshut, Germany).

"Method of managing messages" was invented by Silvio Giebl (Landshut, Germany), Henning Lohse (Landshut, Germany) and Lukas Brandl (Landshut, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for managing messages in a broker cluster. The broker cluster comprises a plurality of nodes each of which maintains a separate counter. The master node of the plurality of nodes in the broker cluster receives a request containing a payload for a message to be stored at the master node. The master node generates a key for the message, wherein the key compris...