ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,265, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Optimizing a prognostic-surveillance system to achieve a user-selectable functional objective" was invented by Menglin Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Richard P. Sonderegger (Dorchester, Mass.), Kenneth P. Baclawski (Waltham, Mass.), Dieter Gawlick (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anna Chystiakova (Palo Alto, Calif.), Guang C. Wang (San Diego), Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Hariharan Balasubramanian (Redmond, Wash.) and Kenny C. Gross (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that optimizes a prognostic-surv...