ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,094, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating tasks from a virtual space" was invented by Pedro Carmo (Winter Garden, Fla.), Katherine Jane Steigman (San Leandro, Calif.), Prajna Shetty (San Francisco) and Genevieve Therese Cuevas (Cave Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating tasks from message data are discussed herein. A user profile may view content displayed within a communication-based virtual space. The user profile may request that the communication platform generate a task based on a content item displayed therein. That is, the user profile may be viewing a ...