ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,709, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dynatrace LLC (Boston).

"Method and system for real-time modeling of communication, virtualization and transaction execution related topological aspects of monitored software applications and hardware entities" was invented by Bernd Greifeneder (Linz, Austria), Ernst Ambichl (Altenberg, Austria), Andreas Lehofer (St. Florian, Austria), Gunther Schwarzbauer (Linz, Austria), Helmut Spiegl (Linz, Austria) and Rafal Mlotowski (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for real-time discovery and monitoring of multidimensional topology models describing structural aspects of ...