US Patent Issued to Zapier on June 30 for "Automatic data retrieval and synchronization based on crawling and indexing private API data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,181, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zapier Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic data retrieval and synchronization based on crawling and indexing private API data" was invented by Ankit Gordhandas (San Francisco), Bryan Helmig (San Francisco), Matthew Plachter (San Francisco), Reid Robinson (San Francisco), Ryan Dunnewold (San Francisco), Simon Charette (San Francisco), Sinchan Banerjee (San Francisco), Sean Pitstick (San Francisco), Tal Peretz (San Francisco), Taylor Halliday (San Francisco), Vitor Balocco (San Francisco) and Benjamin Kempe (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automatic data retrieva...