ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,679, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Virtual database tables with updatable logical table pointers" was invented by Ruediger Karl (Walbstadt, Germany), Mihnea Andrei (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Juchang Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Stefan Baeuerle (Rauenberg-Rotenberg, Germany), Seyeong Bae (Seoul, South Korea) and Joo Yeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are described for implementing virtual table schemas. A virtual table schema includes a logical pointer that is used to target a table that includes data and is defined according to the virtual table schema...