ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,934, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Connections interface for communication platform" was invented by Michael Demmer (San Francisco), Samir Ketema (El Cerrito, Calif.), Yoav Sion (San Francisco), Julie Cockle (San Francisco), Rohit Agarwal (Everett, Wash.), Preetham Deshikachar Shrinivas (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Ryan David Morris (Almeda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing an interface for managing invitations to communicate via a communication platform. In an example, a first user can access a first interface to invite a second user to communicate via ...