ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,768, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sysdig Inc. (San Francisco).

"Configuring metric collection based on application information" was invented by Thomas Van Os (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of monitoring programmatic containers performed through executing an agent processor is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting, by a processor, one or more deployment configurations from a monitoring server related to an application hosted in a container to a backend device, the processor receiving, from the backend device, a plurality of monitoring configurations for the application, th...