ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,449, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic post-deployment server configuration" was invented by Raffaele Vigliotti (Milan), Sze K. Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Oleksandr Senyuk (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Byrne (Indianapolis), Omar Jaber (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bradley Kenneth Michel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Server instantiation or deployment with at least an orchestrated post-deployment configuration service utilizing an exemplary framework providing script orchestration, logging, retry logic and environment-specific infrastructure and service configurations. At least one repository...