ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,239, issued on June 24, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for application programming interface based container service for supporting multiple machine learning applications" was invented by Alexandr Nikitin (El Sobrante, Calif.), Vaibhav Gumashta (San Francisco), Manoj Agarwal (Cupertino, Calif.) and Swaminathan Sundaramurthy (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for an application programming interface (API) based container service for supporting multiple machine learning (ML) applications is described. In particular, a scoring service container includes a base score...