ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,830, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Service mapping and composition infrastructure" was invented by Jan Hrastnik (Sandhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method including receiving a request to map a first service accessible on a first application stack; determining, based on a combination of metadata of the first service and other services in the first application stack that are related to the first service, metadata associated with entities in the first application stack, and trace data associated with data flows between the entities, a complete mapping of the first service, ...