US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 11 for "Tree-based learning of application programming interface specification" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,568, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tree-based learning of application programming interface specification" was invented by Liron Levin (Kefar Sava, Israel), Isaac Schnitzer (Ra'anana, Israel), Elad Shuster (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Pavel Novik (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cybersecurity appliance monitoring application traffic to a web application programming interface (API) dynamically updates tree structures for the web API using the application traffic. An API tree generator generates batches of API trees from paths indicated in the application traffic. An AP...