ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,164, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Accessing a shared data set" was invented by Robin Rehrmann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Kim Nguyen (Rauenberg, Germany) and Eric Kass (Mannheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of accessing a shared data set using a shared and an exclusive lock is provided. The method includes: initiating at least one reader thread configured to perform a read operation; recording a reader thread state for the at least one reader thread in a data structure; selectively acquiring the shared lock for the at least one reader thre...