ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,103, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Data locking" was invented by Richard Pilz (Dresden, Germany), Adrian Mocan (Dresden, Germany), Katja Pfeifer (Dresden, Germany) and Tom Spiegler (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to query, update, and reduce a size of locking data for a dataset including a fixed plurality of dimensions each having a fixed plurality of members comprising index tables for the dimensions and a locks table specifying one of a fixed plurality of lock states for the plurality of members, where the fixed plurality of members each have an associated index...