ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,438, issued on March 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Method for intelligent, dynamic, realtime, online relocation of pluggable databases across nodes based on system resource pressure" was invented by Vijayendra Rao Lakkundi (Telangana, India) and Sue-Kyoung Lee (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a pluggable database monitoring system that groups running processes for the pluggable database into a grouping and monitors resource usage for the grouping to determine whether to migrate the pluggable database to another container. A system...