ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,820, issued on July 7, was assigned to HYANNIS PORT RESEARCH INC (Needham, Mass.).

"Local and global quality of service shaper on ingress in a distributed system" was invented by Anthony D. Amicangioli (Newton, Mass.), Allen Bast (Sharon, Mass.) and B. Joshua Rosen (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computing system, such as may be used to implement an electronic trading system, controls inbound message flow rates. Limiting a per-client or per-connection inbound message rate also helps ensure fair provisioning of computing resources, so that a single client's excessive use of resources cannot overwhelm the s...