ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,805, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Dynamic API gateway routing based on request metadata" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway device receives a request from a client device, the gateway to provide access to a plurality of services provided by a plurality of compute nodes. A manifest is created based on metadata associated with the request and characteristics of the plurality of services, the manifest identifying a logical view of a subset of the plurality of services provided by a subset of the p...