ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,684, issued on July 21, was assigned to DISCORD INC. (San Francisco).

"Enqueuing asynchronous tasks" was invented by Ebrahim Land (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides an asynchronous task messaging service for a server that supports near real-time communications. The asynchronous task service, as a cloud-based message-oriented middleware, sends messages associated with the tasks back to the community hosting service. A delay is encoded in the task code of the message that sets a delay mechanism that is custom to the task and task code. The tasks sent to the asynchronous task service includes t...