ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,339, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for generating service plans" was invented by Ayush Ruia (Kirkland, Wash.) and Himanish Pathak (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device used for generating code segments of a service plan that represents a process for bootstrapping a service. A first directed acyclic graph (DAG) comprising a first plurality of edges and a first plurality of nodes representing releases and dependencies between releases of a process for bootstrapping a plurality of services may be obtained. A second DAG may be generated...