ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,154, issued on July 15, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating playbook run statistics for playbooks executed by an information technology and security operations application" was invented by Jeffrey Roecks (San Carlos, Calif.), Giulio Colleluori (New York), Taotao Yu (Fremont, Calif.) and Ryan Connor Means (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing users of an IT and security operations application with the ability to enable the collection and display of playbook run statistics. Users can selectively enable the generation of playbook run statistics for individual playboo...