ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,356, issued on April 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Integrated transition control center" was invented by Stephan Buehne (Essen, Germany) and Elmar Spiegelberg (Bedburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media to migrate data from source databases to target databases are disclosed. Data may be received, relating to the source databases and the target databases. For each source database, a migration assessment may be generated based on analyzing the data, and a migration method may be selected. A migration plan that specifies a parallel migration o...