ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,808, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RapidFort Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for obtaining instrumentation data" was invented by Rajeev Thakur (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mehran Farimani (San Francisco) and Chien-Hung Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing environment determines, by an initialization process, a monitor instance identifier of an instance of an application, wherein the initialization process initializes monitoring of the instance of the application. The computing environment generates, by the initialization process, a system call argument based on a pseudo-randomly generated identif...