ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,374, issued on June 2, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Lane handling for message ordering buffer" was invented by Ajay Sunderajan Madhavan (Aurora, Ill.), Todd James Borro (Evanston, Ill.), Maximiano J. Martinez (Chicago) and David Erik Heitman (Mokena, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments, collectively referred to as the "Message Ordering Buffer" or "MOB", relate to an improved messaging platform, or processing system, which may also be referred to as a message processing architecture or platform, which routes messages from a publisher to a subscriber ensuring related messages, e....