ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,681, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Live synchronization for database disaster recovery" was invented by Matthias Walliczek (Wiesloch, Germany), Jochen Wilhelm (Sandhausen, Germany) and Rouven Krebs (Romerberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, software, and computer implemented methods for synchronizing between a primary and a secondary computing system, including receiving instructions to perform a change to a primary computing system database; performing the change to the database; logging the change in a database log; receiving instructions to change the por...