ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,238, issued on June 10, was assigned to TSX INC. (Toronto).

"Consolidated indicators for data communications" was invented by Emily Choi (Toronto) and Abe Chan (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data includes key-value pairs that include numerical keys and numerical values. Each key represents a level of service associated with a data source and client terminals. The respective value represents availability or demand for the level of service. Data from different data sources is consolidated into consolidated data by summing values for each key. A consolidated indicator is determined for the consolidated data by comput...