ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,164, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Data distribution architecture" was invented by Arkadiusz Koziol (Glenview, Ill.), Priteshkumar Soni (Naperville, Ill.), Melissa Ann Jenner (Naperville, Ill.), Baris Mestanogullari (Downers Grove, Ill.) and Pearce Peck-Walden (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and method, also referred to herein as an architecture, for efficiently communicating a high volume of data from a server over an electronic communications network to geographically disperse recipients, where one or more of those recipients may receive a customized v...