US Patent Issued to Salesforce on March 11 for "Automated external IP address discovery of services in a public cloud environment" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,197, issued on March 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated external IP address discovery of services in a public cloud environment" was invented by Adam J. Salter (Pacifica, Calif.), Deepanshu Badola (San Francisco), Stephen Fung (Daly Ciy, Calif.), Santhosh ram Vetrinadar Manohar (San Jose, Calif.), Varun Kulkarni Somashekhar (Fremont, Calif.), Amitabh B. Chakrabarty (Fremont, Calif.), Vinod Vasant Pai (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Jason Donley (Bothell, Wash.) and Prabhat Singh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for acquiring and managing data regarding external IP ...