ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,026, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Object history tracking" was invented by Thomas Legler (Walldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems are directed to the enabling of object history tracking in an object-oriented programming environment. According to some examples, a tracking class includes a tracking function and a tracked class includes a tracked function. A system receives user input to link the tracked function to the tracking function. Executable code is executed to create a target object of the tracked class and to execute the tracked function with respect to th...