ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,473, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Requirements driven machine learning models for technical configuration" was invented by Akshay Sinha (Bangalore, India), Matthias Hirsch (Guntersblum, Germany) and Mitchell Clark (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for obtaining a suggested configuration for a configurable object. Typically, a particular object and object configuration are recommended based on technical characteristics of the object. However, a user or process wishing to obtain a recommendation may be more familiar with their operational requireme...