US Patent Issued to SAP on March 4 for "Lock-free read access to vector data structures" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,727, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Lock-free read access to vector data structures" was invented by Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing a lock-free read access to one or more data structures. An embodiment operates by allocating a first portion of a memory corresponding to a first data structure of the one or more data structures, the first data structure comprising a size. The embodiment then performs a first operation associated with the first data structure. The embodiment...