ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,899, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data transformation using binary serialization format" was invented by Leandro Shokida (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Mariano Jose De Achaval (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data formatting service may be configured to format files or documents for data transformation for utilization of the data by other services. The data formatting service may be configured to perform a method including receiving a dataset including a first file that includes a first set of elements formatted according to a first hierarchical structure, parsing the fi...