ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,096, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Machine learning based occupancy forecasting" was invented by Zuxuan Huai (New York), Andrew Vakhutinsky (Sharon, Mass.), Kirby Bosch (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jorge Luis Rivero Perez (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments determine a final occupancy prediction for a check-in date for a plurality of hotel rooms. Embodiments receive historical reservation data including a plurality of booking curves for the hotel rooms corresponding to a plurality of reservation windows, the historical reservation data including a plurality of ...