ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,429, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Parallel connection for device transactions" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for parallel connection for device transactions includes stablishing a first connection to perform a transaction by a client device. The method also includes identifying a plurality of available connections supported by the client device to perform the transaction. The method also includes initializing the plurality of available connections to ...