ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,786, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Defining and executing custom generative artificial intelligence agent actions on selected data items" was invented by Sreeji Krishnan Das (Fremont, Calif.) and Chandra Sekhar Komali (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating and executing custom AI-driven actions in a data analysis interface are disclosed. One or more embodiments receive user input that defines a custom action by specifying an AI prompt with a natural language query and context variables. This definition is stored for later use. One or mo...