ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,573, issued on March 31, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automatic error mitigation in database statements using alternate plans" was invented by Krishna Kantikiran Pasupuleti (Belmont, Calif.), Hong Su (San Carlos, Calif.), Jiakun Li (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mohamed Ziauddin (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatic error mitigation in database systems using alternate plans are provided. After receiving a database statement, an error is detected as a result of compiling the database statement. In response to detecting the error, one or more alternate plans that ...