US Patent Issued to Veeva Systems on Feb. 10 for "User identity security in a content management system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,557, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"User identity security in a content management system" was invented by Jean-Christophe Meriaux (Concord, Calif.), Peter Thorson (Danville, Calif.), Zhanye Tong (San Ramon, Calif.) and Clement Poisson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling visibility of user identifying information. In the event that documents or records are shared between different business partners or business organizations, usernames appearing on the documents, notification or records may be selectively masked to preserve the user identity...