ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,090, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Software development observability platform" was invented by David Shanley (Manakin Sabot, Va.), Mikhael Zharov (San Francisco), Jacob Davis (Campbell, Calif.), Matthew Hanson (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas Beardsley Bender (Boulder, Colo.), Jackson Tsoi (Oakland, Calif.), Chieu Pham (San Jose, Calif.), James Harris (Maple, Canada), Michael Combs (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Pei Hsien Chu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing a software-based platform used to collect and analyze data artifacts generated during software d...