ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,104, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multiple locking of resources and lock scaling in concurrent computing" was invented by Alexander Nip (Redmond, Wash.) and Milos Petrbok (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for implementing division of process resources of running processes into individually locked partitions, and indirect mapping of keys to process resources to locks of each partition, are provided. In computing systems implementing concurrent processing, applications may generate and destroy concurrently running processes with high frequency. Real-time secu...