ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,488, issued on June 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing access to a private resource in an enterprise social networking system" was invented by Yanik Grignon (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing access to a private resource in an enterprise social networking system. One or more servers may receive a request for access to a private resource to be granted to a user from a publisher. The publisher may be configured to publish a message as a feed item to one or more feeds, where the message includes a user...