ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,930, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Database management techniques with controlling documents" was invented by Erica Emelie Ivarsson (Berlin), Tushara Devi Bhogadi Ravishankar (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Niklas Weidenfeller (Mannheim, Germany), Millie Lou (Vancouver, Canada), Yingying Cao (Karlsruhe, Germany), Marie-Luise Wagener-Kirchner (Hemsbach, Germany), Paul Petraschk (Vetschau/Spreewald, Germany), Kartikaye Gomber (Chester Springs, Pa.), Cornelius Bock (Berlin), Abhishek V Tatachar (Bangalore, India), Dinh Gia Bao Dang (Philadelphia) and Angelo Scherthan (Philippsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademar...