ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,598, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods of routing data transaction messages for distributed systems" was invented by John Vaccaro (New York), Kyle Prem (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and Hemant Thombre (Warren, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computing system is provided that communicates with a routing computer system. A routing module that is internal to the distributed computing system controls how and when data transaction requests are sent to the routing computer system for routing to destination systems."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/343...