ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,108, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Table user-defined function for graph data processing" was invented by Gerald Franz (Walldorf, Germany), Romans Kasperovics (Speyer, Germany), Umang Rawat (Heidelberg, Germany) and Roland Sedler (Dossenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a definition of a table user-defined function (TUDF) in a graph query language. The table user-defined function may be created based on the definition. For example, the creation of the table user-defined function may include checking and compiling the definition to generate executable code assoc...