ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,042, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Revoking a software system upgrade without data loss" was invented by Peter Eberlein (Malsch, Germany) and Volker Driesen (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verification of an upgraded software system is determined to be unsuccessful. A recording of inbound and outbound calls is stopped in the upgraded software system. Following a roll back of the upgraded software system, starting a previous software system version is started. Inbound external communications are temporarily blocked for the previous software system version. Outbound external commu...