ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,188, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE, NA (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for providing controlled application programming interface security" was invented by Michael Chermside (Ardmore, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing access to data of a user or services relevant to a user. A customer data key is created by a server that is specific to an application, the user of the application, and the device upon which the application resides. The server may receive an application programming interface call to create the customer data key; however, any call accessing or affecting user-specifi...