ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,476, issued on April 22, 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 receipt of search terms, determination of an embedding for each of the search terms, generation of a composite embedding based on the determined embeddings, determination of similarities...