ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,934, issued on March 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Seamless communication resource transition between a group-based communication system and an external communication system" was invented by Roland Schemers (Woodside, Calif.), James McPhail (San Francisco) and Matthew Wahl (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus and computer program product for seamless communication resource transition are described herein. A user may wish to share an external communication resource within a group-based communication system. Settings may be provided allowing the user to more effectively share the exte...