ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,388, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Smoothing univariate signal edges with stable and unstable subsequence detection and geometric extrapolation" was invented by Matthew Charles Rowe (Bletchley, Great Britain), Sahil Malhotra (Hampton, Great Britain), Sergio Aldea Lopez (Valladolid, Spain), Oleg Gennadievich Shevelev (Chislehurst, Great Britain) and Alberto Polleri (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for smoothing a signal are disclosed. The system partitions the portion of the data sequence into a stable subsequence and an unstable subsequence of data points. The...