ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,465, issued on Oct. 14.

"Method and apparatus for managing concurrent access to a shared resource using patchpointing" was invented by Praveen Vaddadi (Hyderabad, India) and Praneeth Vaddadi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computerized method for scalable, correct, and high-performance asynchronous lockless sharing of a computer resource comprising: determining there is a contention for a shared computer resource by a plurality of competing processes, wherein the plurality of competing processes are competing to access a same portion of the shared resource; adding the plurality of competing processes...