US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Dec. 2 for "Contact tracing as a service using a database system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,903, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Contact tracing as a service using a database system" was invented by Balakrishnan Subramanian (San Francisco), Simon Smith (San Francisco), Bethany Pickard (San Francisco), Yuhuan Tang (San Francisco), Ruchika Mittal (San Francisco), Emad Salman (San Francisco) and Sriram Gopalan (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more enrollment messages may be received via a communication message. The enrollment messages may include identification information associated with a designated person, health status information indicating the presence or absen...