ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,301, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Maintaining state between web applications" was invented by Tejram Jagannath Sonwane (Bangalore, India), Ankit Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Swati Krishna Setty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State can be maintained between web applications such as a lightweight and a classic version of a web application. A lightweight viewer of a web application providing a visualization dashboard is run in a web browser. User inputs that modify the visualization dashboard are obtained. Then user input for navigation to a classic viewer of the web application is ob...