ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,277, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated synchronization of network addresses across public cloud environments" was invented by Anmol Arora (Vancouver, Canada), Chaitanya Pemmaraju (San Francisco) and Nagaraja Shenoy (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs automated network address synchronization in a multi-cloud environment. The system instantiates a trusted public cloud environment (TPCE) based on a specification in a first public cloud environment (PCE). The TPCE offers a set of services. The system discovers a set of external network addresses (ENAs) associate...