ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,363, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Integrating data lake segments with customer relationship management system" was invented by Christopher Bernt (San Francisco), Arthur Kong (San Francisco), Arie Kusnadi (Bellevue, Wash.), Daniel Crawford (Remote, Calif.), Christopher Gamble (Bellevue, Wash.), Darrel Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Karthik Balaji Mahadevarao Premnath (San Francisco), Siddharth Patel Aka Khunt (San Francisco) and Lingyi Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and corresponding systems and apparatuses for integrating data from disparate data sources are described. A l...