ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,557, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Declarative entity segmentation" was invented by Vineeth Anand Nair (Mountain House, Calif.), Lakshmi Srinivas Parimi (San Jose, Calif.), Ashok Shivarudraiah (Fremont, Calif.), Alan Mathias Hoffman (Orem, Utah), Nigel Wallace Menger (Halifax, Canada), Neil Raymond Parsons (Bedford, Canada), Kasia Fichtner (Moraga, Calif.), Pamela Sue Walquist (Carmel, Ind.), Sarah Flamion (Newburgh, Ind.), Matthew Westover (San Francisco) and Jamin Hall (Suwanee, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data processing includes displaying, at a user interface, a pluralit...