ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,795, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and interface for identifying related computing entities" was invented by Nathan Willett (Raleigh, N.C.), Paul Ingram (Menlo Park, Calif.), Uday Sagar Shiramshetty (Fremont, Calif.), Jennifer Williamson (Montecito, Calif.), Alexandra Victoria Nuttbrown (Los Altos, Calif.), Samo Drole (Burnaby, Canada) and Seondong Kim (Mebane, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved user interface and corresponding system is described herein that displays metrics data for various computing entities and that allows a user to navigate continuously to diffe...