ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,844, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for automated website security testing" was invented by Ling Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), Eric Frank Rizzi (Detroit), Karthik Menon (Calicut, India) and Gopalakrishnan Banugopan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automated website security testing. The systems and methods reduce or eliminate the need for a user to manually click through a web application to perform application security testing by embedding one or more API calls to the application security testing service within an already-exi...