ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,954, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Leveraging fixed data relationships to make predictions based on hierarchical free-form planning data" was invented by Venkata Konakanchi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rajak Syyad (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system causes structured data to be stored in data structures of a database according to a database schema. The structured data includes static nodes and dynamic nodes, which are defined based on values of the static nodes. The system receives new data that is not referenced by the dynamic node(s), but a par...