ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,869, issued on March 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Name resolution triggered monitoring agent selection" was invented by Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to perform a name resolution triggered monitoring agent selection for full stack observability. The methods involve obtaining a name resolution request for an enterprise service to be accessed by an endpoint device. A plurality of service instances are configured to provide the ent...