US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 3 for "Extending database data with intended usage information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,353, issued on June 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Extending database data with intended usage information" was invented by Tirthankar Lahiri (Palo Alto, Calif.), Juan R. Loaiza (Woodside, Calif.), Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Witkowski (Foster City, Calif.), Sankar Subramanian (Cupertino, Calif.), Sabina Petride (Tracy, Calif.), Ajit Mylavarapu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gerald Venzl (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques for storing, within a database system, metadata that indicates an intended usage (IU). Once create...