ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,460, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performance analysis and root cause identification for cloud computing" was invented by Doga Tav (Fredericton, Canada), Matthew de Souza (Kanata, Canada), Alpha Barry (Gatineau, Canada), Geoffrey Tate (Ottawa) and Nick Antonov (Fredericton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes, in response to receiving a request against the workload in an environment comprising predetermined cloud-based containers, searching predetermined container runtime interface metadata acro...