ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,684, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STYRA INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"System for authorizing API calls" was invented by Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.), Teemu Koponen (San Francisco), Andrew Curtis (San Mateo, Calif.), Torin Sandall (San Francisco) and Octavian Florescu (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for defining, distributing and enforcing policies for authorizing API (Application Programming Interface) calls to applications executing on one or more sets of associated machines (e.g., virtual machines, containers, computers, etc.) in one or more datacen...