ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,403, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Shared cross-session dictionary using direct data access in a DBMS" was invented by Altin Alickaj (Zurich), Alexander Ulrich (Freiburg, Germany) and Eric Sedlar (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein, a guest language is a programing language that is not the native data access language (e.g. structured query language, SQL) of a database server. When instantiated in the database server, a guest language runtime environment provides any mechanisms needed to execute the guest language. In an embodiment contained entirely ...