ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,902, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Pre-processing cache for a resource allocation analysis server" was invented by Christopher Chase (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bang Zhao (Shanghai), Zhiguo Qu (Shanghai), Juncai Zhang (Shanghai) and Sheng Chu (Shanghai, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource allocation network data store data store contains information about a plurality of resource allocations. Each allocation is associated with a multi-level hierarchical resource identifier. A pre-processing cache periodically retrieves information from the resource allocation network data store, pre-aggregate...