ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,570, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Publish and subscribe communication system" was invented by Mourad B Takla (Hillsborough, N.J.), Xiong Yang (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) and Chokri Trabelsi (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for implementing a publish and subscribe communication system utilizing a load balancer and task schedulers are provided. Subscription requests are received from subscribers for subscribing to a topic published by a publisher. An external subscription list is maintained to track commu...