ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,493, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Automatically evolving tenant model schema in data lake in response to source system changes" was invented by Vengateswaran Chandrasekaran (Trichy, India), Panish Ramakrishna (Bangalore, India), Prithvi Krishna Thodla Chandrasekhar (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arasan Rajendren (San Diego), Jay Sardhara (Fremont, Calif.) and Sriram Narasimhan (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating an expected configuration checksum based on a configuration file associated with an ETL job, the ETL job being exe...