ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,685, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Concurrent write operations for use with multi-threaded file logging" was invented by Kyle D. Kavanagh (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage system for use with a multi-threaded processing system receives concurrent requests to store data to a common data store, and efficiently and securely swaps an active data store for a new data store while avoiding conflicts arising from multiple threads attempting to swap a same data store and minimizing reliance on operations that re-attempt actions upon failure of an attempted action, thereby ...