ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,179, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems, methods, and devices for automation and integration of credentialing and authentication in workflows associated with computing platforms" was invented by Charles Hart Isaacs (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform is configurable to cause initiating a communication session with a user, the user having a user account associated with a workflow data object implemented in an on-demand application hosted by the computing platform, the workflow data object being configured to represent a plurality of operations associated with the ...