ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,741, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BigPanda Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Techniques for incident detection in computing environments utilizing a unified network topology" was invented by Frank A. Gallagher Jr. (Boulder City, Nev.) and Orr Ganani (Kiryat Ono, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for incident detection based on a unified network topology of a computing environment is presented. The method includes: generating a representation of a unified network topology for a network topology of a computing environment, the representation based on a unified data schema, wherein the unified data schema is ma...