ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,374, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Sharing data in a data storage system" was invented by Aditya S. Kuruganti (San Francisco), Kedar Doshi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chaitanya Bhatt (Union City, Calif.) and William Moxley (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes maintaining, by a web-based online data storage system, a data store separating first data that is accessible by a first group of users from second data that is accessible by a second group of users. A first data object of the first data is stored and is specified to be made accessible by the second gro...