ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,615, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for trending patterns within time-series data" was invented by Dustin Garvey (Exeter, N.H.), Sampanna Shahaji Salunke (Dublin, Calif.) and Uri Shaft (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for trending patterns within a set of time-series data are described. In one or more embodiments, a set of one or more groups of data points that are associated with a particular seasonal pattern are generated within volatile and/or non-volatile storage. A set of pairwise slopes is determined for data point p...