US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for proving a shared database connection in a batch environment" (New York, South Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,613, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for proving a shared database connection in a batch environment" was invented by Kershaw S. Mehta (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Thomas John Toomire (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Maryela Evelin Weihrauch (Gaffney, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus provides an operating system service that receives, from an application in a batch environment, a plurality of database transactionality calls associated with a first program of the application, the first program having a first addressability mode. In response to at least one ...