ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,927, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Detecting associated events" was invented by Simon Chow (San Francisco), Ricardo Alfonso Barona Castellanos (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Everardo Lopez Sandoval (Guadalajara, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for identifying related events. In some cases, a first event triggers an analysis in which subsequent events within a time window are analyzed. A duration of a time window may be based on one or more attributes of a triggering event. Events subsequent to the triggering event are analyzed to determine if any of ...