ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,074, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Deployment of updates to configuration templates correlated to software upgrades" was invented by Wulf Kruempelmann (Altlussheim, Germany), Susanne Schott (Walldorf, Germany) and Axel Kuehl (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for deployment of updates to configuration templates correlated to software upgrades are provided. In some aspects, a content configuration upgrade may be initiated within a system landscape including a development system, a test system, and a production system. A transport request including content configuration upgr...