ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,063, issued on July 21, was assigned to CARET HOLDINGS INC. (Columbus, Ohio).

"Asynchronous and parallel application processing" was invented by James Wilbert Devine (Columbus, Ohio) and Daniel Craig Manges (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input records are obtained based on a request to process an application. References to the input records are stored as entries in a queue. A total thread number for threads and a total server number for servers are determined. The threads are initiated on the servers and are asynchronously processed in parallel on the servers. Each thread obtains a reference from a unique entry of the q...