ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,780, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Observability data relationship graphs" was invented by Ashish Kundu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, an example process herein may comprise: obtaining observability data for a computer system for a given time period; determining observability entities from the observability data; converting the observability entities into contextual vertices having associated vertex attributes; determining relationships among the contextual verti...