ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,958, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protocol exception handling external to deterministic code" was invented by Gueorgui Bonov Chkodrov (Redmond, Wash.), Dan Alexandru Nicolescu (Bellevue, Wash.), Khoi Hong (Seattle), Anitta Maria Miller (Bellevue, Wash.), Jose Wilson Morris (Bothell, Wash.), Juan Miguel Paredes (Redmond, Wash.) and Justin Matthew Powell (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The handling of protocol exceptions for deterministic code that communicates with external component(s). A protocol exception host updates an execution state object associated with the det...