ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,294, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Sharing events and other metrics in native applications" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Pui Kei Johnston Chu (Unionville, Canada), Tyson J. Hamilton (Seattle), Unmesh Jagtap (San Mateo, Calif.), Xiaodi Ke (Markham, Canada), Haroldo Level (Seattle), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), James Pan (Oakville, Canada), Steven Parkes (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xie Xu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an execution information sharing system that writes execution information to a provider target (and other targets) in a secure manner. ...