ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,516, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus and system for configurable data collection for networked data analytics and management" was invented by Chenchen Yang (Guangdong, China), Xu Li (Kanata, Canada), Bidi Ying (Kanata, Canada) and Weisen Shi (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networked data analytics management (DAM) system includes a data representation manager (DRM), a data collection and preprocessor (DCP), a correlation manager (CM) and a data source discoverer (DSD). The DRM obtains representations of data sources, used to represent data source ch...