ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,232, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Object identification code decoding schemes via regular expressions" was invented by Bernd Roedel (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Tobias Buschmann (Velbert, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object identification codes can be decoded via an object identification code decoding scheme definition having regular expressions. The definition is configurable via editing non-programming-code text representing the definition. A variety of decoding schemes can be supported, including GS1-based schemes, and other schemes that support order-based decoding, multiple field occurrenc...