ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,123, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Self-service platform integration" was invented by Zoe Coornaert (Vannes, France) and Pierre Cottin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems include reception of a first set of data from a first posting platform, determination of a plurality of field definitions based on the first set of data, each field definition including a field and attributes associated with the field, transmission of the plurality of field definitions to the first posting platform, reception of one or more modifications to the plurality of field definitions from the first posting platfo...