ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,946, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Natively supporting JSON duality view in a database management system" was invented by Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Juan R. Loaiza (Woodside, Calif.), Sundeep Abraham (Redwood City, Calif.), Shubha Bose (Foster City, Calif.), Hui Joe Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Shashank Gugnani (Redwood City, Calif.), Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tirthankar Lahiri (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ying Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Douglas James McMahon (Redwood City, Calif.), Aurosish Mishra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ajit Mylavarapu (Mountain View, Calif.), Sukhada Pendse (Foster City, Calif.) and Ananth R...