US Patent Issued to Salesforce on May 6 for "Sharing of collaborative documents with users via instant messaging" (California, Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,557, issued on May 6, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Sharing of collaborative documents with users via instant messaging" was invented by Nate Botwick (San Francisco), Anh Khuc (Millbrae, Calif.), Ben Cronin (Newton, Mass.), Matthew Chan (San Francisco), Christopher Masterson (San Francisco), David Engelberg (Seattle), Diana Berlin (San Francisco), Merwan Hade (San Francisco), John Brock (Oakland, Calif.), Andrew Chung (Berkeley, Calif.), Justin Edmund (San Francisco) and Norris Lee (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodime...