ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,485, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Cross-application protocol describing integration dependencies" was invented by Sebastian Wennemers (Mannheim, Germany) and Simon Heimler (Coswig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for cross-application protocols describing integration dependencies. A request is received to synchronize customer data from multiple system instances. The system instances include one or more application programming interfaces. A semantic description of an integration process configured to synchronize the customer data ...