ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,050, issued on July 14, was assigned to PAX Markets Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods, apparatuses, and systems for implementing orders with minimal latency" was invented by John Peter Stevenson (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for matching orders across a plurality of input ports are disclosed herein. A system may include a plurality of input ports, a processor, and a storage medium. The processor may be configured to receive a plurality of data packets from the input ports, defining a first message and a second message, wherein the first and second messages have a message type. The proces...