ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,830, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Rule evaluation for real-time data stream" was invented by Ashish Thapliyal (Frisco, Texas), Rajiv Karuthethil (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lingyu Deng (Redmond, Wash.), Prahshant Bharadwaj (Sammamish, Wash.), Sudheer Kumar Kanaka (Bangalore, India) and Vishal Meghani (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described. A computing device may receive a user input indicating a data stream, a data metric configured for a tenant of a multi-tenant database system, a rule associated with the data metri...