US Patent Issued to SAP on March 24 for "Encoded hierarchy representation and method of generating same" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,262, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Encoded hierarchy representation and method of generating same" was invented by Mitchell Clark (Alexandria, Va.) and Aseem Amitav Panda (Boudh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for encoding information for sets, including sets whose elements are arranged in a hierarchy. Values are defined for different levels of a hierarchy, where the values increase or decrease from a root of the hierarchy. A flattened representation of the hierarchy is generated by multiplying element values by a level value for a level at which a respec...