ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,822, issued on May 20, was assigned to DevRev Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Notifications of events of a system of record" was invented by Brian Byrne (Issaquah, Wash.), Victor Kamanga (Austin, Texas) and Amisha Kothari (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for notifying users of events for objects in a system of record are described. A request to generate the event is received. The event is indicative of a modification of an object. The event is recorded in a timeline table for a timeline of the object. Based on the modified object in the timeline table and a user table, one or more users may be identified. Furthe...