US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Aug. 5 for "Intermediary roles in public trust ledger actions via a database system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,430, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Intermediary roles in public trust ledger actions via a database system" was invented by Gary Brandeleer (San Francisco), Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan (San Francisco) and Avanthika Ramesh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first instruction to deploy to a blockchain a smart contract that includes a minting function may be transmitted from a database system. The minting function may include an authorization portion that permits token minting only when a request is received from a requestor associated with a role for which token minting is authorized. ...