US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 9 for "Authenticating and authorizing api calls with multiple factors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,575, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Authenticating and authorizing api calls with multiple factors" was invented by Martin Smolny (Boeblingen, Germany) and Marco Pavone (Ehningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating and authorizing a user identifier to access a service is disclosed. The service is activated by a service application programming interface which requires a two-factor authorization to initiate execution of the service for the requesting user identifier. The method receives, by the service API, a service request together with first ...