ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,919, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Task execution optimization to reduce computing or energy resource use" was invented by Jan-Philipp Esch (Walldorf, Germany), Alexander Mandel (Bruchsal, Germany), Patrick Mueller (Mannheim, Germany) and Henri Kohlberg (Sandhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for generating allocation tasks for a plurality of tasks requesting one or more instances of an element, the element being associated with a plurality of allocation units. At least one allocation unit is an aggregation unit that comprises multiple instances of the ...