ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,173, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Data processing using versioned processing elements" was invented by Michael Hladik (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are disclosed for managing subprocess versions and their associated components in a computing system. These techniques enable dynamic adaptation and traceability through version control. A subprocess definition is received and updated to reflect modifications to its components, configurations, or execution sequence. Changes are identified and propagated using unique version identifiers and events. Iterative re...