ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,437, issued on April 21, was assigned to NASDAQ INC. (New York).

"Systems and methods of communicating electronic data transaction updates to client computer systems" was invented by Leo Golubovsky (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Michael Wood (New City, N.Y.) and Jonathan Wakefield (Chatham, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computer system is provided that includes a storage system and at least one hardware processor. The storage system stores a data structure that includes a plurality of pending data transaction requests. Data transaction requests are processed to add, modify, or remove from the data structure. Multiple up...