ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,739, issued on July 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Adaptive network attack prediction system" was invented by Jan Sterba (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Venkatakrishnan Gopalakrishnan (Ontario, Canada), May Bich Nhi Lam (San Jose, Calif.), Yunjiao Xue (Ontario, Canada), Nana Lei (San Francisco), Edward C. Cheng (South San Francisco, Calif.), Hayward Ivan Craig Welcher (Waterloo, Canada), Jacob Becker West (San Francisco) and Qi Wen Cao (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine-learning (ML) techniques and models are described for predicting the number and severity of network att...