ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,114, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Near real-time analytics using structures representing data distributions" was invented by Nishant Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rajesh Raman (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Joseph Ari Ross (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques used by an observability system for facilitating near real-time analytics using structures representing or summarizing data distributions, such as histograms. An observability system receives a set of datapoints in which each received datapoint includes data for a structure representing a data distribution. Fo...