ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,810, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cequence Security Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated application programming interface (API) testing" was invented by Shreyans Mehta (Los Altos, Calif.) and Abraham Jeevagunta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments facilitate Application Programming Interface (APIs) testing. In some examples, an apparatus detects security vulnerabilities in an API. The apparatus comprises one or more computer-readable storage media, a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more co...