US Patent Issued to Ally Financial on Oct. 14 for "Distributed tracing techniques for acquiring business insights" (Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,966, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ally Financial Inc. (Detroit).

"Distributed tracing techniques for acquiring business insights" was invented by Premkumar Manivannan (Phoenix), Patrick Vondette (Detroit), Timothy Edwards (Charlotte, N.C.) and Spencer Cremers (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices are described. A user journey may be initiated by a user device, and a trace may be generated for the user journey. The trace may include one or more spans that each correspond to at least one service of a set of services that provide functionality to the user journey (e.g., as components of an applicati...