US Patent Issued to Snap on May 6 for "Securing an application programming interface ("API") during the build of a software development kit ("SDK")" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,170, issued on May 6, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Securing an application programming interface ("API") during the build of a software development kit ("SDK")" was invented by Frederik Van Voorden (Los Angeles), Aaron Wangugi (Los Angeles) and Ankit Sultania (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a technique for securing a private secret key during a software build process for a software development kit (SDK) that includes a code implementation for an application programming interface (API), where the private secret key is for use in signing the payload of an API request for the API. Consisten...