ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,595, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for managing distributed client device membership within group-based communication channels" was invented by Matthew Hodgins (Toronto), Michael Montazeri (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kyle Stetz (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content o...