ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,238, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Open resource discovery of entity types" was invented by Simon Heimler (Coswig, Germany) and Sebastian Wennemers (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for open resource discovery protocol describing entity types. An identifier of a first entity type is received. The first entity type defines a relation between an application programming interface (API) and event information. A reference for the first entity type is generated based on the identifier of the first entity type. The reference l...