ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,129, issued on June 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Applying rules to client updates on shared records to trigger system-generated updates" was invented by Dylan Conley (Highland Park, Ill.), Peter Bull (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Jeffrey Charles Wilkins (Palatine, Ill.), Kirk Warren Rasmussen (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Joseph Arthur Campbell (Wheeling, Ill.) and Joshua Edward Thorson (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing shared data records for multiple clients that have simultaneous access and editing privileges to the shared data records are disclosed. When a change is ...