ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,910, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Metadata elements with persistent identifiers" was invented by Daniel Buchmann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Timm Falter (Sinsheim-Hilsbach, Germany) and Ralf Dentzer (Hockenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are described for retaining names for metadata elements, such as when metadata is imported, converted to a different format, or used with a system that may have restrictions on naming different than a system on which the metadata is created. Metadata includes a plurality of metadata elements, including a first metadata element associa...