US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Jan. 13 for "Access token conversion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,262, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Access token conversion" was invented by Abhishek Paul (Union City, Calif.), Dipanjan Bandyopadhyay (Fremont, Calif.), Ibrahim Mustafa (San Francisco) and Prem Kumar Mani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for access token conversion. The system comprises a first application programming interface (API) backend using a first authentication service based on a first tokenization protocol and a second API backend using a second authentication service based on a second token...