ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,987, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Automated data authenticity validation" was invented by Ariel Berkman (Herzliya, Israel) and Eoghan Casey (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for validating data authenticity. One of the methods includes retrieving data that includes (i) an archived version of a data source, (ii) a first hash value, and (iii) a set of provenance data for the archived version of the data source; hashing the archived version of the data source to generate a second hash value; deter...