ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,437, issued on May 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for updating configuration settings during the execution of an application" was invented by Christina Martin Patrick (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are system, method, and/or computer program product embodiments and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for updating configuration settings during the execution of an application. In a given embodiment, a central system may read a configuration value for a configuration setting of an application from a configuration file. The central system may assign the config...