ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,874, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"System versioned table with transactional system time" was invented by Bernhard Scheirle (Leimen, Germany), Andreas Tonder (Weinheim, Germany), Carsten Thiel (Heidelberg, Germany), Guenter Radestock (Karlsruhe, Germany), Thomas Legler (Walldorf, Germany), Martin Heidel (Walldorf, Germany), Robert Schulze (Walldorf, Germany), Joern Schmidt (Walldorf, Germany) and Rolando Blanco (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a first transaction inserting a record into a database and a second transaction deleting the record from the dat...