ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,846, issued on June 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data deduplication using modulus reduction arrays" was invented by Steve Schraudner (Dunwoody, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed for data processing. The method includes receiving real-time streaming data that includes data object identifiers, arranged in a sequenced source data array, for source data objects. The method also includes determining an integer number N of data object identifiers in the source data array and selecting three mutually prime integers N1, N2, N3 such that N1 is greater than N2, N2 is greater ...