ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,746, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Customized processing of sensor data" was invented by Anubhav Bhatia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Patrick Brose (San Francisco), Lukas Carullo (Redwood City, Calif.), Martin Weiss (San Mateo, Calif.) and Leonard Brzezinski (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for processing sensor data are provided. Sensor data, such as individual messages or data points from devices having one or more hardware sensors, can be annotated with one or more metadata elements to facilitate sensor data processing. An annotation rule for sensor data can be determined and sen...