ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,074, issued on Sept. 16.

"Updating event records based on user edited extraction rule" was invented by R. David Carasso (San Rafael, Calif.), Micah James Delfino (San Francisco) and Johnvey Hwang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards real time display of event records with an indication of previously provided extraction rules. A plurality of extraction rules may be provided to the system, such as automatically generated and/or user created extraction rules. These extraction rules may include regular expressions. A plurality of event records may be displayed to the user, such that text in a fi...