ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,708, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Visibility statistic computation and application in the context of a hybrid sharing model within a database system" was invented by Arjun Kumar Sirohi (Meerut, India) and Mayank Agarwal (Siliguri, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity-level visibility statistic may be determined for a database entity in a database system based on one or more visibility rules providing access to instances of the database entity to one or more user accounts. A user-level visibility statistic quantifying a set of instances of the database entity accessible to a user account...