ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,811, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Business process definition and control service" was invented by Frank Wernze (Muenster, Germany) and Gerhard Schick (Rottenburg am Nickar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new methodology for describing business processes and permissible process variants is introduced. Additionally, an allowed system status and involved master data objects with read and change authorization can be defined for process step. If a user wants to run the defined process in a BPM product, the system connection may be made from an authorized central solution manager system (connecte...