ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,231, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to INFORMATION SCIENCE LABORATORY LTD. / NIS PLUS Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Parallel and distributed computing system" was invented by Takashi Matsumoto (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to solve the breaking of memory consistency caused by disturbance of packet arrival order in an environment in which a plurality of computers are interconnected via a plurality of data links and the plurality of computers perform communication synchronization by MBCF with each other. A transmission-side process includes a transmission number-counting unit that counts the number of trans...