ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,340, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Repository-based state diffing system and migration script generating system for databases" was invented by Daniel McGhan (Fort Mill, S.C.), Yaroslav Shamatienko (Vinnytsia, Ukraine) and Alexander Kluev (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a repository-based state diffing system and migration script generating system for databases are described. In one embodiment, the state diffing system includes an export function configured to automatically control placement of selected...