ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,517, issued on April 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automated evaluation of project acceleration" was invented by Alasdair Bailey (Perth, Great Britain), Meghann Agarwal (Austin, Texas), Tibor Meinczinger (Davle, Czech Republic) and Janet Barnes (Kent, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for predicting the effects of acceleration on a probability of a successful completion of a project. Specifically, one or more machine learning algorithms can be trained to predict the success of a project from a plurality of features, including at least one feature t...