ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,638, issued on March 4, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mechanisms to predict system resource consumption of transactions" was invented by Arjun Kumar Sirohi (Uttarakhand, India), Lakshman Martha (Chester Springs, Pa.) and Sirisha Tummalapenta (Serilingampally, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed pertaining to determining whether execution of a transaction will exceed a system resource threshold. A computer system stores a precomputed permissions data structure in association with particular data stored in a database. That precomputed data structure may be used to determine whether a user c...