ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,505, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Decentralized framework for providing application programming interface gateways" was invented by Shailesh Sharma (Morris Plains, N.J.), Ashok K. Muthukrishnan (Prosper, Texas), Prathap Mare (Hyderabad, India), Bharat Hegde K (Bangalore, India), Anwesh Elisetty (Leander, Texas), Venkata Satya Patelkhana (Round Rock, Texas) and Karthick Sundaresan (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for implementing a decentralized framework for providing application programming interface gateways are describe...