ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,334, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Collecting and supporting querying of high-cardinality time-series data" was invented by Paymon Teyer (San Ramon, Calif.) and Jackson Herrick (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for collecting and supporting querying of multi-dimensional data pertaining to usage of software and/or hardware to service tenant requests in a multi-tenant cloud computing system where the multi-dimensional data is initially captured on a per request basis and recorded in objects of a first type that store data pertaining to a specific request, speci...