ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,191, issued on May 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"In-line live data mentions" was invented by Nathan Botwick (San Francisco), Anuj Bheda (San Francisco), Nikrad Mahdi (Oakland, Calif.), Justin Edmund (San Francisco), Kyle Meyer (San Francisco), Hieu Van Nguyen (San Ramon, Calif.), David Rapoport (San Francisco), Jiaying Xu (San Francisco), Thinh Van Lam (Dublin, Calif.), Bashar Al-Rawi (San Francisco), Yunjie Ma (Oakland, Calif.), Oguz Demir (Amsterdam) and Melanie Matsuo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices supporting data processing are described. In some systems, a user...