ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,824, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Fine granularity control of data access and usage across multi-tenant systems" was invented by Chi Wang (San Francisco), Eugene Wayne Becker (San Francisco), Nidhi Chaudhary (San Francisco), Kishore Chaganti (San Francisco), Prasad Nimmakayala (San Francisco), Qingbo Cai (San Francisco), Linwei Zhu (San Francisco), Hsiang-Yun Lee (San Francisco), Amit Zohar (San Francisco), Raghu Setty (San Francisco) and Bhavesh Doshi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for fine granularity control of data access and usage for across multi-tenant sy...