ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,504, issued on May 13, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus to expose a microservice to a software layer" was invented by Tat Kin Tan (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia) and Kamarul Zaman Abdul Rashid (Georgetown, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture disclosed herein expose a microservice to a software layer. A disclosed method includes composing an API execution recipe, initializing a software service to be called, and checking, by executing an instruction with the at least one processor. The connection is between a software layer and a microservice, i...