ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,188, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sysdig Inc. (San Francisco).

"Enriching metrics with application execution context" was invented by Aleksandar Ponjavic (Belgrade, Serbia), Bryan Nolan Seay (Cary, N.C.), Danko Saponjic (Belgrade, Serbia), Perica Milosevic (Belgrade, Serbia), Bojan Blagojevic (Vienna) and Thomas R. van Os (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for organizing and storing metrics for efficient querying is disclosed. A data collection system is implemented to receive, from a device, an original dataset comprising metrics of a component of a clustered application environment and metadata as...