ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,717, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intercontinental Exchange Holdings Inc. (Atlanta).

"System and method for regulating electronic message transmissions" was invented by Vladimir Parizhsky (New York), Alexei Lebedev (New York) and Robert Cornish (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for regulating electronic messages transmissions. A message delay system is disposed between one or more first entities and a second entity within at least one network. Electronic messages are received from among at least one the first entities and the second entity at one or more message arrival times. A message delay c...