ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,492, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Method and system for scheduling access to a node class of a shared resource" was invented by Danielle Jacqueline Nellich (Toronto), Lydia Grace Cervini (Mississauga, Canada) and Antonio Katipunan Marasigan (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer server system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to obtain an indication of scheduled access t...