ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,538, issued on July 1, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Configuring subscriptions for objects of third-party applications integrated into a communication platform" was invented by Lorilyn McCue (Pacifica, Calif.), Kimberly Munoz (Oakland, Calif.), Zachariah Buechler (Portland, Ore.), Sai Pinapati (Foster City, Calif.), Michael Deng (San Francisco), Albert Treat (Kirkland, Wash.), Ryan Mah (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Saurabh Sahni (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuring subscriptions for receiving notifications associated with objects of a group-based communication platform is described. A user inte...