US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Oct. 6 for "Securing secrets in software build workflows involving modular build code" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,579, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Securing secrets in software build workflows involving modular build code" was invented by Andrey Falko (San Francisco) and Thomas Page Odom (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for securing secrets in software build workflows. In some implementations, build instructions call for execution of a first program module and a second program module, where the first program module has been approved to make a privileged request, but the second program module has not. The first program module can be stored in a trusted repository, separat...