ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,499, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Rules-based generation of transmissions to connect members of an organization" was invented by Siu Wan Surlina Yin (London) and Ryan Patrick (Seaton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments describe techniques for proactively connecting members of an organization together based on detected interest in a particular topic. The system analyzes a profile of a member to detect a particular topic associated with the member, and based on evaluating a set of interactions that another member of the organization had regard...