ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,170, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Validation against aggregation across different versions of data" was invented by Alfred Fung (Burnaby, Canada) and Semuel Kadarusman (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for validation against aggregation across different versions of data obtain a selection of a data set, a dimension configuration for a data visualization, and a filter configuration for the data visualization. Then it is determined whether the data visualization is valid based on a determination that the zero or more filter dimensions include the version dimension, or a determ...