ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,683, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cequence Security Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Application programming interface (API) attack surface discovery using cloud security posture management (CSPM)" was invented by Abraham Jeevagunta (San Jose, Calif.), Shreyans Mehta (Los Altos, Calif.), Subramanian Iyer (Fremont, Calif.) and Ravindran Harigopan Nair (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a system that discovers hidden Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and detects security vulnerabilities in the hidden APIs. The system accesses Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) logs and discovers ...