ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,506, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NYSE Chicago Inc. (Chicago).

"System and method for delaying an executable instruction that would otherwise be executable immediately upon arrival at an executing system" was invented by Steven I. Givot (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for intentionally delaying an execution of an executable instruction by determining if a current executable instruction is received from a predefined source for which all executable instructions are to be intentionally delayed. When so, the system sets a sequence time associated with the instruction equal to a receipt time pl...