ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,975, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Cloud-based dynamic access to private resources" was invented by Federico Piagentini (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and David Oscar Rafaniello (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media are described for providing access to private resources such as in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or in a database which is behind a Virtual Private Network (VPN). The solution involves configuring access to the privately owned resource, then using an integration platform to solve design operations or execute the full integration agains...