ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,816, issued on May 6, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"System, method, and graphical user interface for temporal presentation and navigation of code path data" was invented by Ravi Sankar Pulle (Fremont, Calif.), Ajay Krishna Borra (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Gross (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, method, and graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation and navigation of code path data. Code path data samples, including temporal data, related to a plurality of code paths of program code are used to render an interactive GUI including a set of graphical elements representing a correspondin...