ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,420, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Processing high volume network data" was invented by Sharad R. Murthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Bhaven Avalani (Cupertino, Calif.), Hongyue Nemo Chen (Shanghai), Tony Chung Tung Ng (San Ramon, Calif.), Weiwei Jin (Shanghai), Xinglang Wang (Shanghai), Mingming Wang (Shanghai) and Wei Fang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for event messaging over a network. A subscription interface receives data indicative of a subscription request ...