ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,484, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NASDAQ INC. (New York).

"Systems and methods of determining dynamic timers using machine learning" was invented by Josep Puig Ruiz (Boston), Douglas Hamilton (Boston), Diana Kafkes (South Boston, Mass.), Andrew Rooks (Boston), Eugenio Piazza (Stockholm), Andrew Oppenheimer (Hoboken, N.J.), Charles Mack (Madison, N.J.), Michael O'Rourke (Southbury, Conn.), Nick Ciubotariu (Austin, Texas) and Edward Coughlin (Midland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic timers are determined using machine learning. The timers are used to control the amount of time that new data transaction requests wai...