ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,968, issued on July 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Method and system for protection of cloud-based infrastructure" was invented by Syed Sameer Hakim (Dublin, Calif.) and Ashwini Vasudev (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for a quarantining system are provided. A message comprising an application programming interface (API) request may be sent by a client device to a service provider system for access to a first application. The message may be received at a gateway of the service provider system. The gateway may determine that the API req...