ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,446, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Regular expression generation using longest common subsequence algorithm on regular expression codes" was invented by Michael Malak (Denver), Luis E. Rivas (Denver) and Mark L. Kreider (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques related to automated generation of regular expressions. In some embodiments, a regular expression generator may receive input data comprising one or more character sequences. The regular expression generator may convert character sequences into a sets of regular expression codes and/...