US Patent Issued to Salesforce on July 15 for "Downgrading database software via a downgradability test" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,759, issued on July 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Downgrading database software via a downgradability test" was invented by Kaushal Mittal (Mountain House, Calif.) and Thomas Fanghaenel (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for downgrading of database software. Code areas that may affect downgradability may be delineated with code markers. Changes to these sections can be made to prevent a new database version from being built unless a process is taken to indicate that any new features be designated as available, but not yet allowed for N software releases. This provides a downgrade window...