ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,821, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"System and techniques for traversing a dependency graph or tree structure in one step" was invented by Aaron Matthew Bush (Nixa, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, techniques can be performed by a processor of a computing device, the method can include receiving an input selecting a first node instance of a first node. The method can include accessing a node dependency table listing one or more parent nodes and child nodes for the selected first node instance. The method can include determining if dependencies for the selecte...