ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,742, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Text-triggered database and API actions" was invented by Qian Rui Chow (Vancouver, Canada), Donald Creig Humes (Yorktown, Va.), Kaarthik Balasubrahmanian (Belmont, Calif.), Sridhar Tadepalli (Bangalore, India), Saravanan Anandan (Fremont, Calif.) and Kartik Raghavan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for initiating system actions based on text content are disclosed. A system applies a semantic analysis model at run-time to human-understandable text to identify actionable content within the human-understandable text...