ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,855, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting broken object level and function level authorization issues with API services" was invented by Hendrikus G.P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Alessandro Duminuco (Milan), Sape Jurrien Mullender (Amsterdam), Julien Barbot (Villebon-sur-Yvette, France) and Ariel Shuper (Kfar-Haroe, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an illustrative method may comprise: monitoring, by a process, a behavior of an application between one or more client devices and an application programming interface service; establishing, by the process, an a...