ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,736, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scalable event driven auto-diagnosis system" was invented by Hui Liu (San Ramon, Calif.), Hongkun Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Gargi Adhav (San Jose, Calif.), Tianqiong Luo (San Clara, Calif.), Aspi Siganporia (Mountain View, Calif.), Rob Enns (Mountain View, Calif.), Lakshmi Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.) and Manasa Chalasani (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scalable event driven auto-diagnosis systems includes obtaining a data packet configured for transmission across a network from a source address to a destination address....