ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,266, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).
"Continuous database locking during database reconfiguration" was invented by Eugene Ho (Fremont, Calif.), Wilson Wai Shun Chan (San Francisco) and Tolga Yurek (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method for continuous database locking during database reconfiguration is provided herein. The present approach provides two different processing approaches to remaster locks that can execute in parallel. The first is an event-based lock state remastering process that exec...