ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,825, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Preparing data for high-precision absolute localization of a moving object along a trajectory" was invented by Oleg Gennadievich Shevelev (Chislehurst, Great Britain), Sahil Malhotra (Hampton, Great Britain), Sergio Aldea Lopez (Valladolid, Spain), Matthew Charles Rowe (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Alberto Polleri (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for preparing data for high-precision absolute localization of a moving object along a trajectory are provided. In one technique, a sliding window of a set of adjacent points...