ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,604, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Systems and methods for preventing database deadlocks during synchronization" was invented by Archana Shridhar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for storing and updating data in a database. In one embodiment, data elements are stored in a many to one relationship in different tables. When data updates occur, the records to be updated are divided into batches and sorted. Database transactions to update the batches are performed in parallel. When one transaction accesses a record in the database, ...