ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,093, issued on June 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Executing a process-based software application in a first computing environment and a second computing environment" was invented by Fernando Alurralde Iturri (Foster City, Calif.), Ariel Cohen (Foster City, Calif.), Thomas Kauth (San Francisco) and Nicolas Damonte (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process flow is created that represents a process-based software application. User specified connector creation information for creating connectors is received. User specified element information are received for associating elem...