ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,344, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Executing playbooks against aggregate notable events in an information technology and security operations application" was invented by Sourabh Satish (Fremont, Calif.), Paul Agbabian (Los Angeles) and Anurag Singla (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for an IT and security operations application to automatically generate aggregate (or "bulk," "group," or "composite") notable events by identifying notable events sharing common characteristics and aggregating the related notable events into a single aggregate notabl...