ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,261, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System manager for anticipatory autodeployment of software components" was invented by Satish Chandra Oruganti (Bengaluru, India), Ganesh Kumar Gupta (Bengaluru, India) and Michael Patrick Rodgers (Antelope, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system manager is disclosed for automatically deploying software based on user activity. The system manager receives user-specified parameters to control whether, when, and/or how automatic deployment is performed for software components, without specifying which software components are to be autom...