ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,494, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Database load unit for replication log replay" was invented by Janardhan Hungund (Pune, India), Neha Shikha Kachhap (Ranchi, India), Jagadeesha Kanihal (Bengaluru, India), Sebastian Seifert (Heidelberg, Germany), Bernhard Scheirle (Leimen, Germany), Amit Pathak (Pune, India), Werner Thesing (Lautertal, Germany) and Thomas Peh (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary database system loads database objects into a primary in-memory store according to a given format. The primary database captures, in replay logs, the loading of the database objects ...