ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,816, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Complex IT process annotation, tracing, analysis, and simulation" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for complex IT process annotation and tracing, analysis, and simulation, comprising at least a generative simulation platform, optimization engine, and metric engine, which is able to model and simulate a variety of simulations and develop adaptive models, and can be used more specifically for IT/OT infrastructure and technology enabled process simulation to manage performanc...