ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,731, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cribl Inc. (San Francisco).

"Function interposition in an observability pipeline system" was invented by Donn Rochette (Fenton, Iowa), John Chelikowsky (Hopkins, Minn.), Ledion Bitincka (San Francisco) and Clint Sharp (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, data collection functions are interposed to generate input data for an observability pipeline system. In some aspects, a data collection function is made available to an application running on a computer system, with the data collection function having the same name as an original function referenced by the applicati...