US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Nov. 11 for "Public trust ledger smart contract representation and exchange in a database system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,077, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Public trust ledger smart contract representation and exchange in a database system" was invented by Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan (San Francisco) and Marc Benioff (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A designated smart contract representation may be determined based on configuration information provided by a first database system account. The designated smart contract representation may include a binary executable representation of a smart contract template. Access to the designated smart contract representation may be provided via an application excha...