ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,833, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Tracking data center build health" was invented by Eric Raymond Peterson (Vashon, Wash.) and William Nickolas Moran (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Skills and skills metadata may be used to define a process for building a data center. Skills of one service may depend on skills corresponding to the same or different service. A dependency graph may be generated based on these dependencies. The graph may specify an order by which orchestration operations are to be performed to build the services, thereby building the data center. Du...