ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,694, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Compressed message tracing and parsing" was invented by Kyle Dennis Kavanagh (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system monitors processing of incoming messages and logs data related to performance of an application that processes the messages. The monitoring system temporarily associates reusable identifiers with the messages and logs data upon each message traversing different points in the application. Each of the identifiers is sized such that the storage space necessary to store the identifier is less than the storage space necess...