ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,006, issued on March 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"API compliance verification based on a distributed ledger" was invented by Hendrikus G. P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands) and Alessandro Duminuco (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method by a first network apparatus includes receiving an authorization request from a user device redirected from a second network apparatus, generating an authorization response comprising a resource authorization token, and transmitting the resource authorization token to the user device and to a distributed ledger for storage, wherein the distrib...