US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 10 for "Policy engine for supply chain security analysis" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,850, issued on June 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Policy engine for supply chain security analysis" was invented by Behnaz Hassanshahi (Brisbane, Australia), Alstair Michael (Brisbane, Australia), Trong Nhan Mai (Brisbane, Australia) and Padmanabhan Krishnan (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method utilizes a policy engine for supply chain security analysis. The method includes processing programming code, written in an imperative programming language, using a fact collector to instantiate a programming object representing a set of facts of a build system that includes a...