Oracle Online Patching -- How To Exclude Tables in a Custom Schema
@Jeff As your database is 12c, you can query dba_objectes and check the the oracle_maintained column, e.g. select OWNER, OBJECT_NAME, OBJECT_TYPE, STATUS, ORACLE_MAINTAINED from dba_objects where OBJECT_NAME='MyObject';. If ORACLE_MAINTAINED is set to 'Y', then your object is likely to be affected by patching, if not it will be ignored.