ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,347, issued on April 8, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Techniques and architectures for sharing remote resources among a trusted group of users" was invented by Jayanth Parayil Kumarji (San Francisco), Priyadarshini Mitra (San Francisco), Kevin Terusaki (Oakland, Calif.), Zhidong Ke (Milpitas, Calif.), Yifeng Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Utsavi Benani (Fremont, Calif.), Heng Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Evan Jiang (San Francisco), Birva Joshi (San Francisco) and Yogesh Patel (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques and mechanisms for sharing remote resources among a trusted group are disclosed. A ...