ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,116, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Refactoring workbench with migration support" was invented by Peter Eberlein (Malsch, Germany) and Volker Driesen (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for re-architecting an existing software product provided as a service. A user input specifying current databases used for an old software product version is received. The user input includes a definition of a target persistency layout including databases assigned for storing a new software product version, the old software product versio...