ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,332, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Automated testing during zero downtime system maintenance" was invented by Sagar Gupta (New Delhi), Ravikanth Malipeddu (Bangalore, India), Shuchita Gaur (Faridabad, India), Manjunatha K (Bangalore, India) and Aparna Vohra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided including receiving a scenario including a plurality of steps; assigning each step to one of: a baseline phase, a bridge phase and a post-upgrade phase, the bridge phase including a transition from a first to a second runtime system; ex...