ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,314, issued on June 3, was assigned to NASDAQ TECHNOLOGY AB (Stockholm).

"Methods and systems of scheduling computer processes or tasks in a distributed system" was invented by Jonas Nordin (Sigtuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud computer system is provided that includes a plurality of computer devices and a database. The plurality of computer devices execute a plurality of virtual machines, with one of the virtual machines serving as a controller node and the remainder serving as worker instances. The controller node is programmed to accept a request to initiate a distributed process that includes a plurality of data ...