US Patent Issued to SAP on Nov. 3 for "Accumulated status in a change log using script" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,524, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Accumulated status in a change log using script" was invented by Karl Harrer (Landshut, Germany) and Nadja Mueller-Seip (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a script is provided that automatically converts the active statuses at any given point in time in the status log table into a sum of binary numbers. Each status identifier is assigned to a different position of a binary number. The value of the binary number can be used to indicate which status indicators are set and which are not set. Changes to a status indicator can then be set to c...