ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,503, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KING.COM Ltd. (St. Julian's, Malta).

"Method and apparatus for processing data" was invented by Christian Schmidli (Stockholm), Daniel Sundberg (Stockholm) and Michael Sjoberg (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device has a plurality of modules which support an application such as gaming application. The user device has a stream processing module which is able to stream process events which are generated, for example when the application is run. The events which are generated by the modules are passed to an event module which distributes the events to other of the modules."

The p...