ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,686, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Datadog Inc. (New York).

"Duplication avoidance for mutable event based metrics" was invented by Karim Bogtob (Cournon D'auvergne, France), Emmanuel Manousack Tran (Paris), Amina Bouabdallah (Compiegne, France) and Louis Jolibois (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein provides a mechanism to avoid double counting when generating metrics from monitoring events received from an endpoint (e.g., end user's web browser, or mobile application). A unique identifier is assigned to each monitoring event matching a metric definition. When the number of unique identi...