ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,391, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Tracking performance of recommended content across multiple content outlets" was invented by Jason Loring Canney (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Andrew John Grabowski (Northglenn, Colo.), Hilary Joy Traut (Boulder, Colo.), Alexander Mark Robbe (Denver), Richard Martin Berger (Boulder, Colo.), Megan Margraff (Trumbull, Conn.), Mohit Gupta (Redwood Shores, Conn.), Debra Eskra (Redwood Shores, Colo.) and Alistair Sutcliffe (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for tracking content...