ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,439, issued on July 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for data retention in a common group-based communication channel" was invented by Sri Vasamsetti (San Francisco), Paul Matthew Jennings (Redwood City, Calif.), Paul Rosania (San Francisco), Steven Gordon (San Francisco) and Michael Demmer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for data management in a group-based communication system. Specifically, some embodiments address data management for group-based communicati...