ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,779, issued on May 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated reconstruction and attribution of data modifications" was invented by Eoghan Casey (Baltimore) and Jason K. S. Choy (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automated data modification reconstruction and attribution. One of the methods includes determining two or more net modifications between a first backup and a second backup; attributing, for each of the two or more net modifications, the net modification to an entity from a plurality of entit...