ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,845, issued on April 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for smart electronic form management with condition tracking" was invented by Ravindra Raghuwanshi (Guna Madhya Pradesh, India), Shreeshail Ganiger (Bangalore Karnataka, India), Amy Lee (Flower Mount, Texas) and Roshni Ramdasan Kaithavalappil (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic form management system is programmed to: (i) provide a planning UI configured to enable a planning user to assign conditions of approval to a planning application during a planning phase, each condition of approval includ...