ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,635, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for implementing and using a cross-process queue within a single computer" was invented by Lawrence Edmund Lewis (Durham, N.C.), Mohammadreza Nazari (Wayne, Pa.) and Amirhassan Fallah Dizche (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product includes implementing a cross-process queue within a single computer that is configured to transfer a data block between an operating system process executing a write operation and an operating system process executing a read operation, initializing in-memory cel...