ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,766, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PagerDuty Inc. (San Francisco).

"Service dependencies based on relationship network graph" was invented by Sean Scott (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interaction data between entities responsible for services in an information technology environment are collected. The interaction data includes communications between the entities where at least some of the entities represent respective persons, teams, or organizations of people. A relationship network graph based is constructed on the interaction data. The nodes of the relationship network graph represent the entities and the edges of the ...