ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,635, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Service mesh monitoring with infrastructure awareness" was invented by Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, service mesh monitoring with infrastructure awareness is provided herein. An example method herein may comprise: parsing, by a service mesh manager process, a package manager chart to learn a plurality of cloud resources associated with a given application; monitoring performance metrics for each individual resourc...