New Salesforce Patents
Salesforce files patents across CRM, the Agentforce agent platform, Slack collaboration, Tableau analytics, MuleSoft integration, and Data Cloud.
Through the USPTO’s October 1, 2026 release, Patentlyze has covered 92 notable Salesforce patent applications, including 16 published in the last 30 days.
This week's published patents
All four Salesforce filings focus on AI output quality and reliability: two cover grading AI-generated answers by meaning, exact wording, or both and discarding low-scoring results, one builds a self-teaching system for conversational AI, and one flags tasks likely to run long before users commit to them.
What Salesforce is working on
Gone quiet
what qualifies: no new Salesforce filing in 6 or more weeks while the race stays active
| AI assistants that remember you | 4 filings · quiet since Aug 21 while 12 rivals kept filing |
Contested races
what qualifies: 3 or more companies in the same watchlist, Salesforce among them
| The AI guardrails race | 18 of 173 · 14 companies |
| AI agents that act for you | 24 of 162 · 16 companies |
| AI models that work in teams | 11 of 136 · 12 companies |
| AI assistants that remember you | 4 of 106 · 13 companies |
Salesforce patent questions, answered
What is Salesforce working on right now?
Salesforce's tracked filings sit inside contested races, including The AI guardrails race, AI agents that act for you and AI models that work in teams. The breakdown above shows each program’s filing count and latest activity.
How many patents did Salesforce publish this month?
4 Salesforce patent applications have published in October 2026 so far, after 12 in September. Patentlyze has covered 92 Salesforce filings since tracking began in May 2026.
Does a Salesforce patent mean the feature will launch?
No. A published application is not a product announcement. Companies file to protect options, and most patented ideas never ship in the form described. What filings do show is where Salesforce is spending research effort right now.
Where can I find Salesforce’s newest patents?
This page updates every week, when the USPTO publishes its new batch of applications. The newest Salesforce filings appear in the list below.
Top tech areas
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AI/ML 76
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Language AI 14
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Software 13
Top inventors
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Caiming Xiong 10
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Sitaram Asur 8
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Shelby Heinecke 7
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Huan Wang 7
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Shafiq Rayhan Joty 6
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