ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,536, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Using data submitted for a field to populate a different, associated field" was invented by Dylan Myers (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Li Pang (White Rock, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for populating the fields of a form are disclosed. A machine learning model may be trained to predict associations between fields. The trained machine learning model may be applied to a plurality of forms to predict an association between a first field in a first form type and a second field in a second form type. Upon receiving a value for a f...