ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,384, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Web application telemetry" was invented by Kapeel Sharadrao Sable (Nagpur, India), Jason Strimpel (San Diego), Wolfgang David Wedemeyer (San Diego) and Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specification of a user interface for a development of a web application is received. Program components to be executed by a client to load the user interface of the web application are identified. Metadata associated with the identified program components is stored in a database. Webpage computer code to be executed by the client to lo...