ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,801, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Cloud application management using instance metadata" was invented by Daniel Kirmse (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples described herein are directed to systems and methods for managing a cloud-implemented database management application, the method comprising. At least one cloud service may receive a request from a first user group to launch a first instance of the database management application. The at least one cloud service may access a version metadata record for the database management application and use the version metadata record to lau...