US Patent Issued to Salesforce on March 25 for "System and method for a scalable pricing engine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,434, issued on March 25, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for a scalable pricing engine" was invented by Parth Vijay Vaishnav (Newark, Calif.), Thomas Jones (Kansas City, Mo.), Mitchell Christensen (Grass Valley, Calif.), Daniel May (Sausalito, Calif.), Harpreet Singh (Hyderabad, India) and Jalaleldeen Aref (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for a scalable pricing engine. A scalable pricing engine is operable in a low-scale mode and a high-scale or scalable mode to process pricing data in response to pricing requests. The pricing engine operates in a first runtime ...