ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,139, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Access control of external capabilities exposed by a resource server for artificial intelligence models" was invented by James Howard Royal (Austin, Texas), Jesse Li (New York) and Kenneth A. Johnson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling access to external capabilities exposed by a resource server for artificial intelligence models. An access server receives an authorization request from a resource client for authorization of a resource server. The access server determines a set of capabilities associated with the resource server and enforce...