ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,792, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Safely processing integrated flows of messages in a multi-tenant container" was invented by Trevor Clifford Dolby (Southampton, Great Britain), John Anthony Reeve (Winchester, Great Britain), Andrew John Coleman (Petersfield, Great Britain) and Matthew E. Golby-Kirk (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for safely processing integrated flows of messages in a multi-tenant container. Each step in the flows of messages to be processed by the applications in t...