ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,919, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Synthetic data generation for machine learning model simulation" was invented by Akash Singh (Gurgaon, India), Debadri Basak (Kolkata, India), Mohan Krishna Kusuma (Amalapuram, India), Rajdeep Dua (Hyderabad, India), Gowri Shankar Raju Kurapati (Guntur, India) and Shashank Tyagi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for synthetic data generation are provided that receive a schema configuration file in a synthetic data set request from a client application, create a set of worker processes to generate the synthetic data set based o...