ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,234, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic and persistent data sharing for cloud service pipelines" was invented by Douglas Wiegley (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for dynamic and persistent data sharing between cloud services. To address limitations in existing systems, resource provisioning and application deployment pipelines are configured with calls to share data using a configuration service. In some implementations, the configuration service includes an API, which is called by one or more stages of the resource provisioning pipeline to write configurati...