US Patent Issued to Oracle International on April 15 for "Persistent context for reusable pipeline components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,412, issued on April 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Persistent context for reusable pipeline components" was invented by Roy John Varghese (San Ramon, Calif.) and Winston Jeeva Prakash (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for managing and isolating build process pipelines. The system can encapsulate all the information needed for each build process step in a build context structure, which may be accessible to the build process step. Each build process step can receive input from the build context, and can generate a child build context as output. Accordingly...