ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,860, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Systems and methods for backing up data" was invented by Dirk Thomsen (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for backing up data. In one embodiment, a plurality of read requests are issued. In response to the read requests, a plurality of data pages are retrieved. The plurality of data pages are stored in a plurality of buffers. During said storing, for each data page, an indication that storage of a particular data page of the plurality of data pages has been completed is generated. In response to...