ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,686, issued on July 21.

"Message broker customization with user administered policy functions" was invented by Jeffrey Alan Carley (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a message broker apparatus, method, and program product customizable through the use of externally administered and executed policy functions. The system uses user defined and controlled policy functions to programmatically customize the behaviors of a message broker's processing of messages and further allowing for that customization to take place on a per channel basis. This provides for greater functionality and flexibility to the use...