ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,039, issued on March 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Maintaining service availability" was invented by Kaushal Bansal (San Francisco) and Prabhat Singh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for maintaining service availability. Files including code written using a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for network security may be received. A knowledge graph including connections between services may be generated from the code written using the DSL in the files. A service that will have an availability issue may be determined based on the connections between service...