ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,530, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for rotating network addresses in prefab regions" was invented by Eden Grail Adogla (Seattle), Thomas Werner Kuehnel (Seattle), Zackery Vincent Paladino (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Laura Ann Duffey (Portland, Ore.), Kimberly A. Rodriguez (Livermore, Calif.) and Navaneeth Garakahalli (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for rotating network addresses following the installation of a prefab region network at a destination site. A manager service executing within a distributed computing system can...