ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,847, issued on July 7, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Declarative authentication engine" was invented by Federico Piagentini (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Franco Garcia (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for implementing variable a declarative authentication engine. The system generates a schema that includes a field and has a format defined by an authentication protocol associated with a service. The system then validates a connection request based on comparing the field of the generated schema to a field of the conne...