ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,079, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Version maintenance service for analytics computing" was invented by Anudeep Hegde (Bangalore, India), Biddappa C K (Kodagu, India) and Indu Venugopal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods of maintaining a cloud-delivered analytics computing service. A version maintenance service may access version data for a subject instance of an analytics computing service and scan a plurality of remote data sources in communication with the subject instance of the analytics computing service to determine respective ...