ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,213, issued on June 24, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Application and infrastructure template management to easily create secure applications for enterprises" was invented by Mayank Kumar (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extensible platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system is used during the software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes of an application. The system, according to various embodiments, receives indications that changes are made to one or more templates or software bundles stored in a software library and coordinates how changes to a particular template will be applied to applications f...