ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,334, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modifying score values associated with an object based on search query results" was invented by Lucas Murphey (Wadsworth, Ill.) and David Hazekamp (Tinley Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assigning scores to objects based on evaluating triggering conditions applied to datasets produced by search queries in data aggregation and analysis systems. An example method includes causing display of a user interface for generating a correlation search comprising a search query, a triggering condition to be applied to a dataset pr...