ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,884, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Execution tracing for node cluster" was invented by Shao-Yuan Ho (San Jose, Calif.), Atul Jha (Fremont, Calif.), Mark Mears (Oakland, Calif.) and Thomas Fanghaenel (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that pertain to tracing performance information. A computer system receives a request from a second computer system to perform operations pertaining to a database statement of a database transaction that is being executed by the second computer system. The computer system determines that the request is an initial request receive...