ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,762, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"List alignment meta structure and tool" was invented by Jan Portisch (Bruchsal, Germany), Radu Purdel (Bucharest, Romania), Dirk Becker (Malsch, Germany), Markus Bucher (Heidelberg, Germany) and Sandra Bracholdt (Dielheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a persistence model is utilized that allows the storage of value lists in a referenceable and reusable manner. This allows for two lifecycle options for value lists: (i) schema-dependent and (ii) schema-independent. Thus, the lifecycle of all involved entities (e.g., schemas, values,...