ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,402, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Resource efficient schema object creation system" was invented by Sunabha Chatterjee (Kolkata, India), Hemant Kumar Shukla (Jabalpur, India) and Tanay Jayant Kayastha (Nandgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and various embodiments for a resource efficient schema object creation system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving a schema-change request at a first node of a cluster of computing nodes. The first node creates and populates a schema object in a shared storage, based on the schema-change request. An entry is generated...