ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,171, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Intelligent annotation of entity-relationship data models" was invented by Jan Portisch (Bruchsal, Germany) and Stephan Schub (Oftersheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent annotation of data models can be implemented. In one embodiment, the method can receive a data model including entities and relationships between the entities. An entity can include a set of attributes. The method can annotate the data model by defining a logical entity including one or more of the entities, validate the logical entity, and automatically generate a message struct...