ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,597, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Efficient access to services by cloud system" was invented by Martin Lauer (Heidelberg, Germany), Kiruthika Raghunathan (Bangalore, India), Thomas von der Heyde (Walldorf, Germany) and Shrinivas Karwa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments facilitate deployment of customized code at a local site, for reference by a service that is being called by a remote system. At a design time, a visual code editor (e.g., Blockly) is utilized to create and store customized code at the local site. During a subsequent runtime, in response to dispatched service...