ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,563, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Instrumentation of soft navigation elements of web page applications" was invented by Kevin J. Cirone (Tewksbury, Mass.), Blake T. Sullivan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Dipankar Bajpai (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to instrumenting applications. In an example, a method involves providing a web page application with a tracer application. The method further involves accessing a source of the web page application. The method further involves detecting a reference to an element of the web page applicat...