ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,503, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Systems and methods for improving performance of log buffers" was invented by Dirk Thomsen (Heidelberg, Germany) and Christoph Roterring (Sinsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program to write a redo log for operations performed to modify data within a database. The program sets a throttle mass modification flag when a ring list of log buffers is full and unable to write an additional log entry at this point in time. When the throttle mass modification flag is set, the writing...