ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,533, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Data synchronization error resolution" was invented by Gerd Ritter (Heidelberg, Germany), Rene Gross (Heidelberg, Germany) and Tim Kornmann (Reilingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization protocol is provided that can be used to resolve synchronization errors encountered while trying to synchronize versions of data objects between a client device and a remote computing system. The protocol includes a client device, in an offline processing mode, handling user interface ("UI") manipulation actions on one or more UI elements of one or more UI screen...