ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,675, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Orchestration of operations on a cloud platform based on multiple version maps of services" was invented by Christopher Steven Moyes (San Mateo, Calif.), Zemann Phoesop Sheen (San Francisco), Srinivas Dhruvakumar (Vancouver, Canada) and Mayakrishnan Chakkarapani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems, for example, multi-tenant systems deploy software artifacts in datacenters created in a cloud platform. The system receives multiple version maps. Each version map provides version information for a particular context associated with the...