ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,126, issued on June 17, was assigned to ELASTICSEARCH B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Distributed network data management systems and methods" was invented by Andrew Wilkins (Perth, Australia) and Ron Cohen (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for application performance management across one or more networks are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of geographically distributed computing devices executing one or more applications. A plurality of collectors are distributed across the one or more networks, each collector being positioned proximate a respective computing device. The collectors may sample, by e...