US Patent Issued to American Express Travel Related Services on May 12 for "Enhancing API access controls with Markov chains and hidden Markov models" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,168, issued on May 12, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Enhancing API access controls with Markov chains and hidden Markov models" was invented by Hiranmayi Palanki (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various approaches for using Markov chains and hidden Markov Models to enhance API access controls for secure data. Various embodiments disclosed in this application introduce an access control application between the APIs and a data store that uses Markov chains or hidden Markov models to validate, check, or verify that the data request meets expected security guideline...