ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,645, issued on July 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Predictive analytics for network topology changes" was invented by Santhosh Kumar Vuda (Bangalore, India), Kiran Kumar Palukuri (Bangalore, India), Kumar G Varun (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jerry Paul Russell (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for recommending plans to remediate a network topologies are disclosed. The techniques include logging network topology information identifying relationships between entities in a network topology over a number of time periods. The techniques also include, using the logged network topology...