ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,765, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"In-database workflow orchestration for serverless function" was invented by Rahul Goli (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Noman Sheikh (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Harshad Kasture (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexander Ulrich (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The illustrative embodiments provide a framework for executing data-centric workflows within the database session, thus achieving workflow execution with no additional process creation, virtualization, or network overhead. The user-provided serverless functions that comprise the applicat...