ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,599, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Semantic clustering for process discovery graphs" was invented by Gregor Berg (Berlin), Timotheus Kampik (Umea, Sweden), Alexander Cramer (Berlin), David Eickhoff (Berlin), Majid Rafiei (Aachen, Germany) and Remy Saint Cricq (Heiligkreuzsteinach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each event type in a business process is represented by a node in a process discovery graph. Semantic clustering merges nodes based on a commonality between them. As a result, a graphical user interface (GUI) may be presented that shows fewer nodes. This process may be repeated, usin...