ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,490, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Concurrent visualization of time-series network metrics for correlation inference" was invented by Timothy Simon Stirling (Gilly, Switzerland), Federico Lovison (Fontanelle, Italy) and Simone Lippolis (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains telemetry data indicative of a plurality of different types of events that occurred in a network. The device computes event counts for each of the plurality of different types of events within each of a sequence of predefined timespans based on the telemetry data and generates times...