ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,818, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for efficient compute resource harvesting" was invented by Ganesh Seetharaman (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Robert Costin Velisar (Belmont, Calif.) and Yuen Sheung Chan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and techniques for resolving dangling references resulting from a dependency relationship between computing resource objects uncovered during a harvesting process. In embodiments, a harvester application adds computing resource objects associated with a client to a resource col...