ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,428, issued on July 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Stage-specific pipeline view using prediction engine" was invented by Mark Pearson (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Jinwon Lee (Seattle), Gregory Nerpouni (Oakland, Calif.) and Charles Wardin Stabb (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for displaying a stage-specific pipeline view with a prediction engine are disclosed. A system displays a plurality of regions representing various stages of completion for a plurality of transactions. The system determines a stage of completion for each of the plurality of transactions at a...