ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,889, issued on May 6, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Programmable data layer for graphical user interfaces" was invented by Kentaro Kinebuchi (San Francisco), Andrea Zornada (San Francisco), Ryan Kennedy (San Francisco) and Ajey Shah (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing support at a server for GUI development is disclosed. At least a portion of a query is received from the client system. It is determined that a first field of a plurality of fields corresponding to a specified custom object type is to be resolved using a data item stored in a first server-side data store of the plurality o...