ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,777, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface for fungible configurable attributes for a compute instance" was invented by Daniel S. Goldfein (Seattle), Sanjay Pillai (Seattle), Max Yekaterynenko (Leander, Texas), Shihao Sun (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ali R. Sahibzada (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for configuring and creating a compute instance are disclosed. A system displays, within a Graphical User Interface (GUI), first and second interface elements representing first and second configurable attributes of a compute instance. Each int...