ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,531, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC. (New York).

"Cross scenario fall through (XSFT)" was invented by Dmitry Zaslavsky (Edison, N.J.), Gjeta Gjyshinca (New York) and Christopher Andrews (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing cache reuse in a computational system involves assigning unique identifiers to various Tweaks that affect computational outcomes and injecting Nodes with fields that form a bitmask representing these Tweak dependencies. During execution, the system tracks and updates each Node's dependency information, adjusts the cache key based on the actual Tweak de...