ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,621, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Transparently executing actions within a containerized cloud environment" was invented by Joachim Goennheimer (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a templating and detemplating component that allows for transparent integration with a cloud environment irrespective of the implementation is provided. It allows for two distinct ways of making changes in the cloud environment: (1) execution of commands through a command line tool; and (2) creation of custom resources by a user or system component."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30,...