ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,544, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Linking automate testing using multiple tools" was invented by Zhijie Ai (Shanghai) and Dan Liu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided including receiving a definition for a scenario including a plurality of operation steps, wherein a first and second operation step is executable by a respective first and second application under test; recording a first and second test script for the respective first and second operation steps of the scenario with a respective first and second test automation tool...