ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,078, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Modeling production processes to include intermediate products" was invented by Stefan Resag (Walldorf, Germany), V Krishna Anaparthi (Bangalore, India) and Iris Zimmermann (Speyer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems relate to the modeling of production processes to include intermediate products. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system receives user input to define an intermediate product, and generates a master data record for the intermediate product. The ERP system further receives user input to include the intermediate prod...