US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 22 for "Controlling storage accesses for merge operations" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,012, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlling storage accesses for merge operations" was invented by Bruce C. Giamei (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Martin Recktenwald (Schoenaich, Germany), Donald W. Schmidt (Stone Ridge, N.Y.), Timothy Slegel (Staatsburg, N.Y.), Aditya N. Puranik (Pune, India), Mark S. Farrell (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.), Christian Jacobi (West Park, N.Y.), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Christian Zoellin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage accesses for merge operations are minimized. A plurality of records of a plurality of input list...