ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,040, issued on June 30, was assigned to Trading Technologies International Inc. (Chicago).

"Analyzing user activity with respect to a composite object" was invented by Evan J. Story (Chicago), Morgan L. Trinkaus (Barrington Hills, Ill.) and Jay A. Biondo (Western Springs, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for analyzing user activity relating to composite objects including at least a first object and a second object are described. The first object and the second object may be objects with respect to which a user, for example, a user in a communications network, can take various actions. Disclosed embodiments allow user ac...