ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,358, issued on March 18, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for tagging and tracking events of an application" was invented by Timothy S. Milliron (San Francisco), Adam Ballai (San Francisco) and Robert Hagemann (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing delegated metric tools within a partially closed communication platform that includes receiving a tag identifier linked to at least a first identified platform interaction in the communication platform; associating the tag identifier with at least one logged event of an account associated with the first identified plat...