ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,003, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Configurable circular buffer for streaming multivariate ML estimation" was invented by Denesh Kumar Krishnan Rajaram (Kenmore, Wash.), Ruixian Liu (San Diego), Guang Chao Wang (San Diego) and Kenny C. Gross (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with automatic configuration of a circular buffer for ingesting a stream and generating ML estimates in real-time are described. In one embodiment, an example method includes loading a stream of multivariate time series observations into a...