ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,239, issued on May 6, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Processing task distribution and recovery" was invented by Tingting Guo (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Tushar Kaistha (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Wing Yan Ip (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and corresponding methods for distributing tasks across various processing devices, such as servers, of a distributed computing environment are disclosed. The embodiments can batch workloads and distribute the tasks to the various processing devices for processing such as to reduce an overall processing time and costs. The embodiments may, ...