ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,612, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Identifying forgotten data privacy protocol relevant data objects" was invented by Matthias Vogel (Saarbrucken, Germany) and Benny Rolle (Reinhardshagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for data privacy. One example method includes receiving, from responder applications that participate in but do not initiate a data privacy integration protocol, end-of-purpose information for at least one object. The responders respond to protocol commands for executions of the protocol requeste...