ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,546, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Portable binary files for client side execution of federated application programming interfaces" was invented by Gaurav Sagar (Bellevue, Wash.), Antonio Garrote (San Francisco), Patricio Barletta (Brentwood, Calif.), Javier Isoldi (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Alejandro Assi (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Luis Contreras (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A federation management service may receive, via a user interface of the federation management service, a first user input indicating a selection of a testing environment for testing a federated ...