ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,320, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Purpose-based data management for computing systems" was invented by Carsten Pluder (Spiesen-Elversberg, Germany), Diane Schmidt (Walldorf, Germany), Volker Lehnert (Schriesheim, Germany), Martina Knoedler (Bad Wimpfen, Germany), Thorsten Bruckmeier (Walldorf, Germany), Philipp Alexander Zikesch (Heidelberg, Germany), Bernhard Drittler (Walldorf, Germany), Matthias Vogel (Saarbruecken, Germany), Katrin Ludwig (Walldorf, Germany), Naved Ahmed (Sulzetal, India), Saritha Palli (Bangalore, India), Shweta Sureshchandra Gupta (Bangalore, India), Arun Kumar Gowd (Bangalore, India), Dev Karan Ahuja (Bengaluru, India) and...