US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 15 for "Component characteristics similarity comparison" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,380, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Component characteristics similarity comparison" was invented by Billy Ma (San Mateo, Calif.) and Brian Truong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein support component maintenance that accounts for a similarity between characteristics of different components. To identify components with similar characteristics, one or more techniques described herein support generation of a data structure (e.g., a tree) that represents a component, where each characteristic may be represented in a different leaf node. The system may generate...