ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,710, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods of managing state machine systems with compacting distributed log storage" was invented by Andrey Falko (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at a server, a workflow definition and generating a unique key for the received workflow definition. A distributed log storage may store the internal workflow schema having the not-started states to a state topic of the distributed log storage using the generated unique key, where the state topic includes the states of the internal workflow sche...