ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,016, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Custom threshold windows for key performance indicator alerts" was invented by Ankur Ashok Kath (San Francisco), Ayyappa Muthusami (Georgetown, Texas), Manoj Pawar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jeffrey Wen-Young Shih (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device monitors a key performance indicator (KPI) relative to a first alert threshold, where a value of the KPI having a specified relationship to the first alert threshold causes the computing device to generate an alert. When the computing device receives an instruction to modify the...