ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,096, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Translation of tenant identifiers" was invented by Thomas Fanghaenel (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for translation of tenant identifiers. A record may be received. A value of a tenant identifier for the record may be determined from a key for the record or a scan descriptor. The value of the tenant identifier in the key for the record may be replaced with a new value for the tenant identifier. A bitmap stored in a record header of the record may be used to identify columns of the record that store...