ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,812, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Managing encryption data for system replication of database systems" was invented by Dirk Thomsen (Heidelberg, Germany), Christoph Roterring (Walldorf, Germany) and Martin Schindewolf (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program takes a first snapshot of a first set of data stores configured to store data associated with a database system. After taking the first snapshot of the first set of data stores, the program further takes a second snapshot of a second s...