ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,003, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Systems and methods for performing entity based data searches between enterprises" was invented by John Licata (New York), Thomas Klingbeil (Potsdam, Germany), Lukasz Ostrowski (Berlin), Benjamin Stoeckhert (Oberursel, Germany), Upendra Barve (Berlin), Anna Zhikhareva (Berlin), Marco Cigaina (Vimercate, Italy) and Thomas Waltering (Wiesloch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for establishing connections between entities for collaboration and potential co-innovation. In one embodiment, the present disclosu...