ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,815, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart application programming interface (API) resource sharing for distributed service platforms" was invented by Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas) and James O. Pendergraft (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing data, resources, services, or the like in a distributed service system (e.g., a distributed service platform) are disclosed. Application programming interface (API) requests (e.g., API calls) containing short-form uniform resource identifiers (URI) having shared resource type names may be correctly and accurat...