ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,778, issued on March 17, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Traceability and observability for distributed applications" was invented by Joel A. Obstfeld (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Oliver James Bull (Bristol, Great Britain) and Andrew Pletcher (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for providing traceability and observability for decentralized applications. A plurality of transaction metadata records are obtained corresponding to a plurality of transactions related to execution of a computing task by a decentralized appli...