US Patent Issued to PagerDuty on May 26 for "PID controller for event ingestion throttling" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,828, issued on May 26, was assigned to PagerDuty Inc. (San Francisco).

"PID controller for event ingestion throttling" was invented by Taavi Andrew Burns (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accepted events are processed. Each accepted event is associated with a respective ingested timestamp, a respective processing-start timestamp, and a respective processing-complete timestamp. Events are accepted at a rate of a target rate limit. A current error value is obtained as a difference between a target lag time and a second value. The target lag time indicates a configured maximum time within which an accepted event is to be processed....