ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,390, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Method and system for implementing a log parser in a log analytics system" was invented by Gregory Michael Ferrar (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for implementing a log analytics method and system that can configure, collect, and analyze log records in an efficient manner. An improved approach has been described to automatically generate a log parser by analysis of the line content of a log. In addition, an efficient approach has been described to extract key-va...