ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,770, issued on July 15, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"System and method for providing lock-free self-service queue" was invented by Theodore C Law (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing a lock-free self-service queue. The method includes enqueuing at least one node in the queue; competing, by producer threads, to append their respective nodes to a last node of the queue; allowing only one producer thread to append its respective node to the last node of the queue, in which unsuccessful producer threads either give up or reattempt to append their nodes to the appended ...