ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,148, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (New York).

"System and method supporting highly-available replicated computing applications using deterministic virtual machines" was invented by Chaitanya Rogers (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing replicated virtual machines on multiple computing nodes within a cluster in a distributed computing network. Each virtual machine includes an application, and the application includes bytecode. The method also includes sequentially recording, in a replicated transaction log, transactions of the virtual machines and one or more upgrades to th...