ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,802, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Determination of hierarchical codes" was invented by Raghuveer Kanneganti (Prosper, Texas), Neda Edalat (San Jose, Calif.), Shrinivas Kaza (Danville, Calif.), Harish Kumar Kadirompalli Venkatashivareddy (San Jose, Calif.), Harshit Kumar (Tracy, Calif.), Phiroze Dastoor (Redwood City, Calif.) and Taiwo Alabi (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include reception of a plurality of item descriptions associated with a respective hierarchical code which includes a plurality of group codes, extraction of a respective plurality of phrases fr...