ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,612, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mechanisms for maintaining chains without locks" was invented by Rui Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Prateek Swamy (Fremont, Calif.), Yi Xia (Los Angeles), Punit B. Shah (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Rama K. Korlapati (El Segundo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that relate to manipulating a chain of database objects without locking the chain. A computer system may maintain a chain that orders a set of database objects stored in a cache of the computer system. The computer system may receive a set of requests to perform database transactions...