ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,526, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Realistic performance analysis for planned changes" was invented by Sebastian Mietke (Reilingen, Germany) and David Bischof (Wiesloch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To conduct realistic performance analysis for planned software changes, code changes are obtained for an application, including a change to a data source. Then a test version of the application and test information are provided to a separate production system running a current version of the application. The test version includes the code changes and the test information includes a request to te...