ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,619, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Extensible method to decouple API and service provider" was invented by Chen Feng (Shanghai), Xiansheng Sun (Shanghai), Xia Yu (Shanghai), Kun Liu (Shanghai) and Shuna Ye (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system associated with an enterprise microservice cloud computing environment may include a central API registry that contains API URL pattern-to-application mapping. A routing rule processor of an API gateway, coupled to the central API registry, may receive a first request (including a first request API URL) for a first user API call. Based on the first ...