US Patent Issued to Salesforce on June 30 for "Classifying teams in a group-based communication system using machine learning techniques" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,413, issued on June 30, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Classifying teams in a group-based communication system using machine learning techniques" was invented by Andy Timmons (Emeryville, Calif.), Lichen Ni (Vancouver, Canada), Kyle Jablon (Long Island City, N.Y.), William Cha (San Francisco) and Kate Kleinschmidt (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, devices, and computer program products are described. A group-based communication system may use machine learning techniques to classify teams of the system, determine discount messaging for teams of the system, or both. The gr...