ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,234, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Metadata driven dataset management" was invented by Kaushal Bansal (Pleasanton, Calif.), Venkata Muralidhar Tejomurtula (Danville, Calif.), Azeem Feroz (San Jose, Calif.), Dmytro Kashyn (Holliston, Mass.), Dmytro Kudriavtsev (Belmont, Calif.), Shouzhong Shi (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajitesh Jain (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring the operation of the software of a data as a service (DAAS) system during run time is described. The configuring includes receiving a match query from a customer relationship management system that ...