ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,291, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Alert management" was invented by Indervir Singh Banipal (San Jose, Calif.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Nadiya Kochura (Bolton, Mass.) and Sourav Mazumder (Contra Costa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments receive a data metrics input which corresponds with a microservice issue, determine a final outcome by multiplying each metric of the data metrics input by a weight, determine a link output based on the final outcome, determine a cost function based on the link output, evaluate that a cost output of the cost functi...