ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,668, issued on March 24, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Efficient state synchronization in a clustered environment using compacted key/tuple representations and snapshot-based state restoration" was invented by Yatin Umrotkar (San Francisco), Alexey Syomichev (San Francisco), Sarvesh Parab (San Francisco), Abhishek Chhabra (San Francisco), Simi Kaleeckal Mathew (San Francisco) and Rui Ge (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for synchronizing data. A source device processes an update to data in a database. The s...