ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,168, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Timeout processing for aggregation messaging in an integration environment" was invented by Benjamin Graham Thompson (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and John Anthony Reeve (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving an initial request message in a request queue of the messaging system; receiving an aggregation reply message in a reply queue of the messaging system, wherein the aggregation reply message is received from an integration system that processes the initial request message, and wherein the a...