ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,961, issued on April 22, was assigned to TRADING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INC. (Chicago).

"System, method, and tool for synthetic order recovery" was invented by William Tigard Baker (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew Gottemoller (Chicago) and Filip Fracz (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for synthetic order recovery is provided. An exemplary method for synthetic order recovery includes the features for detecting a server event associated with a synthetic order server identified by a synthetic order server identifier, wherein the synthetic order server is in communication with the recovery tool; determining at least one ...