ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,026, issued on March 18, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for non-blocking synchronization of secure customer data" was invented by Arno Sosna (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jay H. Hartley (San Ramon, Calif.), Cindy Chiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Charlie Christopher Shaeffer (Roseville, Calif.), Samuel Kwong-Ming Leung (San Ramon, Calif.) and Alex Weitsun Huang (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for non-blocking synchronization of secure customer data of an enterprise data storage. A first local data storage is established that can be used offline that includes a su...