ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,588, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Maintaining document count in a distributed system" was invented by Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany), Frederik Transier (Bammental, Germany) and Kai Stammerjohann (Wiesloch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for maintaining document counts in a distributed system. An embodiment operates by receiving a document count query for a data store, the query being associated with a time stamp and a system session currently interacting with the data store. A plurality of commits to the da...