ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,360, issued on June 10, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Point to node in a multi-tiered middleware environment" was invented by Clayton Krueger (San Antonio) and Phillip Schwesinger (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods directing requests to a particular node in a multi-tiered middleware environment are provided. In one embodiment, traffic requests can be dynamically routed to a desired server, and not be load balanced, based on an identification of the client generating the traffic requests."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2024, under Application No. 18/416,8...