ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,312, issued on July 8, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Code profiling call stack linking" was invented by Vladimir Sor (Tartu, Estonia), Gleb Smirnov (Tartu, Estonia) and Chengyu Yang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems, methods, and techniques profiled call stack linking. Data relating to functions that are part of call stacks can be captured from a series of snapshots. Frame information for the identified functions (e.g., a span ID, trace ID) can be identified and indexed. Responsive to receiving a query for a visualization specifying one or more criteria (e.g., all frames that are part ...