ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,390, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Flexible meta model (FMM) for an extensibility platform" was invented by Anna Igorevna Bokhan-Dilawari (San Ramon, Calif.) and Manpreet Singh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the disclosure, an example method herein may comprise: providing an extensibility platform for observing entities to produce associated observability data; installing flexible meta models within the extensibility platform, wherein the plurality of flexible meta models define the entities, a globally unique identifier of each of the plura...