ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,367, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Semantic responder dependencies in integrated end of purpose protocols" was invented by Benny Rolle (Reinhardshagen, Germany) and Matthias Vogel (Saarbrucken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for data privacy. One example method includes providing an end-of-purpose query to applications in a landscape that requests an application to determine whether the application is able to block an object. Votes are received from applications that are either a can-block vote that indicates th...