ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,973, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Monitoring of resource consumption per tenant" was invented by Robin Joy (Walldorf, Germany), Ruediger Karl (Waibstadt, Germany), Norman May (Karlsruhe, Germany), Tobias Scheuer (Bruchsal, Germany), Patrick Voelker (Mannheim, Germany), Jaeyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyogi Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include reception, at a database instance hosting a plurality of database tenants, of a statement for execution in a first database session associated with a first tenant, determination of first tenant-level resourc...