ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,757, issued on July 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Upgrading a target system in a continuous integration system" was invented by Raj Ramalingam (San Francisco), Kishore Reddipalli (San Francisco) and Varun Srinivas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, an apparatus may operate as a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline for application artifacts running on a target software platform. The apparatus may include a processor to operate an application upgrader for the target software platform, the application upgrader to: consume application artifacts from a continuous integration (CI) system, wher...