ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,103, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"Data packet processing methods, systems, and apparatus" was invented by Brian Kreider (Westminster, Colo.) and Stephen Cooper (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network capture device receives data packets received by one or more packet switches in a data communications network and processes each of the data packets decoding the data packet and determining whether the data packet is a financial data packet or not. The network capture device transmits, to a risk exposure computer system, the data packets determined to be financial data packets."

The paten...