ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,053, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Application stack read-only replica with application specific write buffer" was invented by Daniel Bos (Beijing), Peter Schoenau (Untergruppenbach, Germany) and Tobias Karpstein (Eschelbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a replication tool may arrange for a copy of original records from a data source to be written into a read-only replica in an application stack. Write buffer logic in the application stack may determine that information in an original record of the read-only replica has been locally updated at the application...