ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,679, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cribl Inc. (San Francisco).

"Searching remote data 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 method of searching remotely-stored data includes receiving a search query at a computer node residing at a node geolocation, the search query representing a request to search data stored at a storage geolocation; ide...