ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,536, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Middleware for communication between microservices and monolithic application" was invented by Hui Li (Shanghai), Xia Yu (Shanghai), Dabin Feng (Shanghai), Neng Gan (Shainghai, China) and Zhen Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, from a first entity, a first call, the call being received by a middleware client of a second entity, storing a set of headers associated with a workflow in a request context holder of the middleware client, and determining that a second call is to be executed fr...