US Patent Issued to Salesforce on March 17 for "User identifier match and merge process" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,169, issued on March 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"User identifier match and merge process" was invented by Srinivas Tirupati (Bothell, Wash.), Amit Martu Kamat (Sammamish, Wash.), Jawad Ahmed Ibrahim Katib (Sammamish, Wash.), Raveendrnathan Loganathan (Sammamish, Wash.), Xun Sun (Bellevue, Wash.), Lingyu Deng (Redmond, Wash.), Prasanthi Oruganti (Bothell, Wash.) and Hyun Seung Hong (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving a first configuration and a second configuration that define a set of rules for matching and merging a set of source data objects that are associat...