ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,423, issued on July 29, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"Distributed stream-based ACID transactions" was invented by Michael Craig (Wayne, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing distributed transactions is provided. The system includes a sequencer that communicates an atomic message stream to multiple different service instances. The service instances each process the messages from the message stream into a local queue. Each service instance also executes a state machine by reading messages from a queue and transitioning between states in the state machine while also performing one or more operations in c...