ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,522, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Text classification of API documentation for informing security policy creation" was invented by Krishnan Shankar Narayan (San Jose, Calif.), Srikumar Narayan Chari (Cupertino, Calif.), Venkata Ramadurga Prasad Katakam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Patrick Kar Yin Chang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An API response field classification service obtains API documentation published by a vendor and defined security policies and matches the response fields represented in the security policies to their descriptions in the API documentatio...