ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,878, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Complex dimension functions in pivot aggregations" was invented by Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany), Kai Stammerjohann (Wiesloch, Germany) and Frederik Transier (Bammental, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to techniques for performing a pivot aggregation on a set of data using intermediate maps and intermediate pages. The intermediate maps and the intermediate pages reduce the computational complexity of pivot aggregations into a series of operations that are less computationally complex and may be performed in...