ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,821, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Limited functionality interface for communication platform" was invented by Shanan Delp (San Francisco), Michael Demmer (San Francisco), Ilan Frank (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kevin Marshall (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for expediting communications between a first person of an organization associated with a communication platform and a second person not associated with the organization. The first person requests for the communication platform to generate an invitation to communicate with the second person. The first person...