ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,420, issued on May 27, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Query management in a streaming system" was invented by Kenton Lance (Hillsboro, Ore.), Brent Ryan Nash (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Matthew Rowen (Milton, Great Britain) and William Morgan (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to manage queries for managing queries that detect activity associated with a data stream of a computing device. A system can receive a request to implement a query from a device, test the query in a test environment, and determine whether or not to deploy the query to a production environment that includes one or more ho...