ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,045, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Code monitoring to recommend alternative tracking applications" was invented by Joshua Davey (Scarborough, Canada), Chi Wai Ng (Toronto), Egan Cheung (Manotick, Canada) and Jonathan Burns (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein at methods and systems for monitoring and analyzing code and identifying a suitable substitute for the identified code. A central server identifies inserted code configured to communicate session data to a second server. The central server then identifies an application having functionality corresponding to the inserted code. The ...