ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,020, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Container plugin for legacy on-premise application" was invented by Daniel Kirmse (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for installing a plugin to a cloud-implemented database management application. A shared container file system may be initiated at a cloud environment. A plugin container image may be accessed, where the plugin container image comprises plugin payload data describing a first plugin to the database management application and a copy executable. A plugin container may be started at the cloud envi...