US Patent Issued to Salesforce on May 13 for "Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for centralized channel management in a group-based communication system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,197, issued on May 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for centralized channel management in a group-based communication system" was invented by Colin Gibbs (San Francisco), Carmen Raffa (San Francisco), Matthew Kump (Vancouver, Canada), Aish Raj Dahal (San Francisco), Jessica Rae Petersen (Oakland, Calif.), Ayushi Samaddar (Emeryville, Calif.), Robin McConnell Balaga (San Francisco) and Jessica Victoria Miller (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Centralized channel management of a set group-based communication system is described. A channel managemen...