ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,251, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Software project management tool plug-in" was invented by Ashwini Deshpande (Bangalore, India) and Lalitendu Samantray (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, an intelligent plug-in is provided for a software project management tool that facilitates automated capture and review of key performance indices (KPIs) in order to meet the quality needs of each workstream. This added automation, however, can be technically challenging due to a variety of factors, including the number of disparate systems from which KPIs need to be captured a...