ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,221, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing performance metrics associated with software applications" was invented by Nicholas Kistner (Cupertino, Calif.), Vivek Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew T. Maher (London), Fabio Benedetti (Santa Clara, Calif.), Raymond T. Powers (Castro Valley, Calif.), Ari K. Campbell-Marder (San Francisco), Matthew Tan Teik Hoe (London), Gregory D. Eldridge (Seattle), Arseniy Kaplun (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Daniela S. Antonova (York, Great Britain) and Peter J. Gremett (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques f...