ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,020, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graph analysis and database for aggregated distributed trace flows" was invented by Hanzhang Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Huai Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Liangfei Su (San Jose, Calif.), Selcuk Kopru (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjeev Katariya (San Jose, Calif.) and Wanxue Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are shown for generating process flow graphs from system trace data that involve obtaining raw distributed trace data for a system, aggregating the raw distributed trace data into aggregated distributed trace data, generating a plurality of pro...