US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Feb. 17 for "User interface enabling unconstrained data inputs to a constrained system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,163, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"User interface enabling unconstrained data inputs to a constrained system" was invented by Richard Stevens (Kent, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method automatically enable unconstrained inputs of data including a price that relate to a proposed new or modified trade orders between counterparties for submission to an electronic trading system that enforces constraints on the inputs relating to the proposed trades that can be submitted by the counterparties."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2023, under Application No. 18/...