ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,987, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and interface for integrating related content" was invented by Ian Edward Torbett (Benicia, Calif.), Samo Drole (Burnaby, Canada) and Amin Moshgabadi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a data intake and query system providing a user interface including corresponding content from a system external to the data intake and query system, such as an observability system. On receipt of input from a client device, the data intake and query system may generate a user interface including the corresponding content....