ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,110, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Implementation of data access metrics for automated physical database design" was invented by Michael Brendle (Leimen, Germany), Norman May (Karlsruhe, Germany), Robert Schulze (Dresden, Germany), Alexander Boehm (Schwetzingen, Germany), Guido Moerkotte (Schriesheim, Germany) and Michael Grossniklaus (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for improved design and implementation of data access metrics for automated physical database design. An example method include...