ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,521, issued on May 20, was assigned to TRADING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INC. (Chicago).

"System and method for communicating with an electronic exchange in an electronic trading environment" was invented by Neil P. Crouch (Harvard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization stage as well as later during a trading session. Upon detecting that a connection between the client termina...