ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,652, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and methods for network address based blocking for multiple substrates" was invented by Deepanshu Badola (San Francisco), Julio Barton (San Francisco), Jose Lejin P J (Bengaluru, India) and James Wilson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for network address based blocking for multiple substrates. The method includes receiving a block request to block one or more network addresses. The method also includes storing the one or more network addresses in a block list at a database repository. The block list includes a data structu...