US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on June 30 for "Distributed and transactionally deterministic data processing architecture" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,011, issued on June 30, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Distributed and transactionally deterministic data processing architecture" was invented by Zachary Bonig (Skokie, Ill.), Jose Antonio Acuna-Rohter (Des Plaines, Ill.), Pearce Peck-Walden (Chicago), James Bailey (Western Springs, Ill.), Eric Thill (Naperville, Ill.) and David Lariviere (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transaction processing system including multiple transaction processors also includes an active transaction receiver that sequences all incoming messages from various sources to facilitate transactional determinism, as wel...