ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,560, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Travelers Indemnity Co. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for improved high-volume computer service access management" was invented by Thomas J. Dvorachek (Kensington, Conn.), Anupam K. Sharma (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Eric Nuzzi (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for improved high-volume computer service access management, such as a computerized environment that executes a specially-programmed interception application that evaluates service requests prior to forwarding such requests to a designated service or application."...