ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,822, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Cloud data consolidation and processing system" was invented by Paul Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Hal Scott Hildebrand (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 processing consent information. A data consolidation system obtains, from each of two or more computing systems, a corresponding set of data objects such that two or more sets of objects are obtained. Each data object is associated with a corresponding individual and includes consent information indicat...