ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,412, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Asynchronous processing of product lifecycle management (PLM) integration messages" was invented by Michael Hettich (Heidelberg, Germany) and Andre Klahre (Angelbachtal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, asynchronous message processing is performed in a PLM system integration (PLMSI), at least for large message payloads. A processing decision is made as to whether to process a payload synchronously versus asynchronously. In the case of asynchronous processing, this processing can be started in a separate thread from the synchronous com...