ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,681, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Discrete optimization of configuration attributes" was invented by Tural Gulmammadov (Toronto), Manish Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Padala Siva Sai Ram Venkata Reddy (Bangalore, India), Hariram Kannan (Bangalore, India) and David Hamm (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for configuring an entity are disclosed. The techniques include generating, based on multiple sets of features inputted into a machine learning model, predictions of multiple sets of performance metrics for multiple configurations of the entity. The technique...