ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,670, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Intelligent machine learning-based mapping service for footprint" was invented by Swarnava Chatterjee (Benares, India), Nisheeth Agarwal (Lucknow, India), Ramana Mohanbabu (Bangalore, India), Stefan Feickert (Birkenau, Germany) and Himanshu Goyal (Jaipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent mapping from created item information to sustainability reference content from a variety of sources can be implemented to facilitate created item footprint management and other sustainability applications. The difficult task of finding appropriate emission factors ac...