ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,849, issued on April 21, was assigned to DTCC DIGITAL (US) INC. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for transaction management spanning multiple heterogeneous computing networks" was invented by George Daniel Doney (Riva, Md.) and Dennis O'Connell (Garden City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for interfacing heterogenous computing networks to accomplish a cross-network that spans at least two networks and has a source node and a destination node. A graph structure is traversed to define a transaction path. The graph structure includes transaction nodes within transfer network...