ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,812, issued on April 29, was assigned to Cribl Inc. (San Francisco).

"Enriching search results with provenance information in an observability pipeline system" was invented by Clint Sharp (Oakland, Calif.), Dritan Bitincka (Edgewater, N.J.), Ledion Bitincka (San Francisco) and Oliver Draese (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, search functionality is provided in an observability pipeline system. In some implementations, a search method includes receiving a search query from a leader role in an observability pipeline system. The search query represents a request to search event data at a computer resource....