ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,152, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EPLAN GMBH & Co. KG (Monheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Flexible management of resources for multiple users" was invented by Frank Engler (Cologne, Germany) and Phillip Falkenhagen (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method which performs, inter alia, the following: performing a login process at a web page for a first user, wherein the first user is assigned an identifier; performing a digital object generation process based on data entered by the first user at the web page, wherein the data includes an indication of an amount of a resource and a time period, and wherein th...