ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,288, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SALESFORCE INC. (San Francisco).

"Target environment data seeding" was invented by Bar Jakubovitz (Herzliya, Israel), Shai Rubin (Binyamina, Israel), Yehonatan Mazar (Tel Aviv, Israel), David Anaton (Holon, Israel), Shahar Yalov (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Roy Emek (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including accessing a source database including records stored in tables organized in a hierarchy defining respective parent and dependent tables of the tables in the source database and containing respective parent and dependent records of the records, each record including one...