ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,719, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Generating templates for use in synthetic document generation processes" was invented by Karan Dua (Najibabad, India), Praneet Pabolu (Visakhapatnam, India) and Mengqing Guo (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system generates templates to be used for use in synthetic document generation. Generating a template includes selecting entities to be included in the template and/or selecting characteristics of entities in the template. The system may execute randomization functions to determine which entities, of a candidate set of ent...