ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,039, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"On-demand contextual trace log generation" was invented by Wei Chen (Shanghai), Wenbing Duan (Shanghai), Xudong Liu (Shanghai), Tianhao Liu (Shanghai), Xiang Fan (Shanghai) and Jia Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for automatic generation of dynamic application trace logs associated with a running application. A log viewer presents application log entries associated with an application execution log having been generated in connection with a previous execution of the running application. The ap...