ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,150, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Multi-tenancy using shared databases" was invented by Volker Driesen (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations include providing a set of tenant databases within a cloud platform, each tenant database being executed as a database instance within a respective resource unit, providing a set of shared databases within the cloud platform, each shared database being executed as a database instance within a respective resource unit, at least one shared database being accessed by two or more tenant databases of the set of tenant databases, definin...