ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,303, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Intelligent generation of visualizations of data metrics" was invented by Arindam Ghosh (Banagalore, India), Rajan Madhavan (Foster City, Calif.), Kanagaraj Ramachandran (Bangalore, India) and Arun Sadayam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a dashboard are disclosed. The system may obtain a set of one or more characteristics of a target user. A set of candidate data metrics that are relevant to the target user may be determined by applying a metric selection model to the set of characteristics. The set...