ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,859, issued on March 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Message moderation in a communication platform" was invented by Siddhi Soman (San Francisco), Corey Baker (New Westminster, Canada), Jessica Fain (Berkeley, Calif.), Stephen Burgess (Berkeley, Calif.), Matthew Hodgins (Toronto), Himanshu Sharma (Ajax, Canada), Sri Mahesh Vutukuri (Tracy, Calif.) and Nicole Fish (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissio...