ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,733, issued on May 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for implementing a shim database driver" was invented by Vadim Yarovoy (San Francisco), Raghavendran Hanumantharau (San Francisco), Olga Tikhonova (San Francisco), Da Zhao (San Francisco), Arundhati Tambe (San Francisco), Shruti Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Jason Woods (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for implementing a shim driver configurable to provide a database driver. A shim driver class is loaded from a class path and instantiated su...