ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,370, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Operand data processing using instruction message queues" was invented by Orlando Miguel Pires dos Reis Moreira (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Gokturk Cinserin (Son en Breugel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device may include a message management facility and a message processing facility. The message management facility comprises a first message queue for receiving new instruction messages and a second message queue for receiving rejected instruction messages. The message processing facility receives a first instruction message and a s...