ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,823, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Unisys Corp. (Blue Bell, Pa.).
"Method of making a file containing a secondary index recoverable during processing" was invented by Kelsey L. Bruso (Minneapolis) and James M. Plasek (Eagan, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-based method of making a file containing a secondary index recoverable during processing of the secondary index includes: capturing a current system time as a captured system time and writing the captured system time to control information; finding writes to the file containing the secondary index; also writing the writes to an audit trail; using the captured ...