ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,775, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"System to identify and characterize code changes" was invented by Sebastien Lavoignat (Droue-sur-Drouette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include determination of a first code artifact and a second code artifact, generation of a first plurality of key, value pairs based on the first code artifact and a second plurality of key, value pairs based on the second code artifact, identification of a plurality of changes between the first plurality of key, value pairs and the second plurality of key, value pairs, the plurality of changes represe...