ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,645, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cribl Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating search query autocomplete suggestions based on metadata derived from event data" was invented by Oliver Draese (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dritan Bitincka (Edgewater, N.J.), Ledion Bitincka (San Francisco) and Janusz Sobolewski (Mazowieckie, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, search functionality is provided in an observability analysis system. In some implementations, search results are obtained from prior search queries, the search results include a subset of event data generated in a computing environment. Metadata are generated by analyzing...