ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,696, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Secret protection during software development life cycle" was invented by Prasad Peddada (Alameda, Calif.), Matthew Schechtman (Fairfax, Va.) and Taher Elgamal (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to the protection of secrets within a software development lifecycle. Developers can use an encryption service to encrypt a secret to be used by an application within a package. The secret can be associated with the application, and then encrypted and included in a package that is signed and passed through a software autom...