ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,105, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud native observability migration and assessment" was invented by Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains testing parameters used by a plurality of agents in a network to perform testing with respect to an online application. The device identifies overlapping parameters among the testing parameters and generates a consolidated set of testing parameters for the overlapping parameters. The device configure...