ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,958, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cribl Inc. (San Francisco).

"Targeting system state context in a search process 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 query is received at a computer node from a leader role of an observability pipeline system. The search query represents a request to search event data at the computer node and incl...