ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,256, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context based sustainable logging" was invented by Abhishek Jain (Baraut, India) and Sarika Sinha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for optimizing application log messages. A first log message is received and parsed to extract features. One or more second log messages are parsed to extract context information for determining a context of the first log message. The first log message is classified as to whether the first log message is a candidate for optimization based on the extracted features and cont...