US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Sept. 15 for "Streaming platform reader" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,216, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Streaming platform reader" was invented by Charles Patrick Nugent (Whiteabbey, Great Britain) and Gareth Albert McCarter (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming platform reader includes: a plurality of reader threads configured to retrieve messages from a plurality of partitions of a streaming platform, wherein each message in the plurality of partitions is associated with a unique identifier; a plurality of queues coupled to the plurality of reader threads configured to store messages or an end of partition signal from t...