ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,196, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Creating a time series based on event data" was invented by Jeremy Hicks (Ellsworth, Maine), Todd Leonard DeCapua (Wilmington, Del.), Adam James Schalock (Beaverton, Ore.), Neil Douglas Erkkila (Cherry Valley, Mass.), Samuel Halpern (Chicago), Chad Tripod (Livermore, Calif.), Joel Schoenberg (Vashon, Wash.) and David Connett (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Field-based enterprise events created within an enterprise platform are compared to criteria to determine enterprise events of interest. These enterprise events of interest are used...