ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,497, issued on March 31, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Intelligent profile-driven drift detection" was invented by Gaurav Kumar (Bangalore, India), Prashant Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Nagarajan Muthukrishnan (Foster City, Calif.), Prasanna Venkatesh Ramamurthi (Chennai, India), Binoy Sukumaran (Foster City, Calif.) and Nirmala Sreekantaiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for detecting a drift experienced by computing system(s). The system generates multiple snapshots as part of a drift detection process. Each snapshot contains state information of a com...