ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,292, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Product lifecycle management of data migration during a system update" was invented by Andre Klahre (Angelbachtal, Germany), Michael Hettich (Heidelberg, Germany) and Nitish Kumar (Leimen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, there is provided a computer-implemented method including initiating an upgrade of a service; performing the upgrade of the service by at least checking a system table including an indication of whether the upgrade of the service causes at least one data to be incompatible with the service after the upgrade is complet...