ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,914, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Orchestration of software releases on a cloud platform" was invented by Jeaneth Aguilar Vergara (Granite Bay, Calif.) and Kim Ho (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant system receives a request to build a software artifact for deploying on one or more target datacenter entities of the datacenter configured on the could platform. A software artifact comprises executable instructions associated with a service configured for execution on one or more cloud platforms. The system generates a release configuration that includes reusable relea...