ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,424, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Data plane authorization" was invented by Bjoern Friedmann (Rheinmuenter, Germany), Paulo Buettenbender (Sao Leopoldo, Brazil), Victor Matheus Silva Peixoto (Walldorf, Germany), Lucas Mendonca de Souza Xavier (Sao Leopoldo, Brazil), Leonardo Pletsch (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Jascha Kanngiesser (Weisloch, Germany), Joerg Franke (Brushsal, Germany), Peter Haerle (Bammental, Germany) and Ioannis Kostis (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to receive a replicated representation of a data entity and a replicated representation of application...