ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,352, issued on April 1, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Rest API scanning for security testing" was invented by Ganesh Nikam (Pune, India) and Akash Shah (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing an application programming interface (API) are presented. The method comprises: receiving API workflow data associated with an API testing tool and generating a scan configuration file using the API workflow data; crawling the collection of API requests by identifying and retrieving a link associated with the collection of API requests; and crawling the link to generate a crawled link re...