ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,123, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for generating account permissions based on application programming interface interactions" was invented by Sandesh Kini Kulai (Ottawa) and Brian Swan (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating account permissions for an account on a computing system are provided. In some embodiments, application programming interface (API) interactions involving an external application and the computing system are used to generate a corresponding set of account permissions for the account. API permissions for the external application ma...