US Patent Issued to Salesforce on June 17 for "Providing an instant messaging interface for data analytics" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,215, issued on June 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing an instant messaging interface for data analytics" was invented by Kartik Sundar (San Francisco), Katherine Anne Maertens (Seattle), Yukiko Ishida Anonuevo (Concord, Calif.), Naomi Menahem (Seattle), Bailiang Zhou (Seattle), Manish Tripathi (San Francisco) and Jared Briskman (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for providing an instant messaging interface for data analytics. In one aspect, a method includes displaying a user interface for a communication applicati...