ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,642, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Economist's Advocate Inc. (Milton, Mass.).

"System and method for latency leveling in electronic test environments" was invented by Matthew Krepps (Milton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for accessing, by a data processing system and from a hardware device, outbound latency data and inbound latency data defining an outbound latency and an inbound latency to control a transmission of electronic test orders from a plurality of test subject devices independent of the computational powers of...