ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,556, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Aggregation and routing of metric time series data" was invented by Steven Karis (Pacifica, Calif.), Rachel Kolavo (Boulder, Colo.), Nathan Moeller (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Cheng (Seattle), Ramakrishnan Hariharan Chandrasekharapuram (San Jose, Calif.) and Archanan Padmasenan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for aggregating metric time series data upon ingestion, such as prior to intake, analysis, or processing by a data quantizer system. The disclosed techniques can transforming metric time series data int...