US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for enforcing policies for authorizing APIs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,998, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for enforcing policies for authorizing APIs" was invented by Andrew Curtis (San Mateo, Calif.), Mikol Graves (San Francisco), Teemu Koponen (San Francisco), Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.) and Torin Sandall (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide API (Application Programming Interface) authorization platform that allows API-authorization policy stacks to be created and enforced. Policy stacks (called "stacks") define API-authorization policies across different sets of managed resources in a workspace. A...