US Patent Issued to STYRA on May 13 for "Processing API calls by authenticating and authorizing API calls" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,502, issued on May 13, was assigned to STYRA INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Processing API calls by authenticating and 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, computer...