ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,269, issued on July 29, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software orchestration framework for implementing application programming interfaces" was invented by Senthil Umakandan (Chennai, India) and Sharmila Radhakrishnan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for facilitating development and execution of application programming interfaces (APIs) using a software orchestration framework. Using the software orchestration framework, APIs may be developed using declarative statements only, without requiring any implementation using programming code. Based on parsing and interpreti...