ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,030, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Tracing target methods using customer configurable reflection chaining" was invented by Jeffrey Frey (San Mateo, Calif.), Ananya Krishnaswamy (Fremont, Calif.) and Kunal Kapur (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using user configurable reflection operations to access layered information are disclosed. A user may identify a method and type to be monitored in an application in a configuration file that is uploaded to the APM agent. The APM agent parses the configuration file to determine the method and type to be ...