ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,327, issued on July 29, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data logging for API usage analytics" was invented by Brandon Sneed (Oregon City, Ore.), Cody Garvin (Camas, Wash.) and Pooya Jaferian (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage mediums for performing specialized data logging on a client device are disclosed. Observability data pertaining to an API on a client device is captured. The observability includes, for each of one or more functions of the API, a number of times the function is used and a number of times each parameter of the function is used. The obser...