ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,954, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for configuring workflow event processing and identifier federation" was invented by Eric Hsiao (San Mateo, Calif.), Jeffrey Toillion (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Amy Yang (Beijing), Bingqing Shang (Beijing), Dennis M. Chin (Stow, Ohio), Robert Carina (Pottersville, N.J.), Simone Geib (Redwood City, Calif.) and Santosh Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Event processing techniques for updating a database in real time based on events in a continuous event stream are disclosed. The techniques can update the database to inc...