ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,389, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Authenticating computing system requests across tenants of a multi-tenant database system" was invented by Matthew Bahrenburg (San Francisco), Alan Vangpat (Pittsburgh), Anupam Jain (Dublin, Calif.), William Charles Mortimore Jr. (San Francisco), Srinath Krishna Ananthakrishnan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Peter S. Wisnovsky (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the authentication of computing system requests across tenants of at least one multi...