ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,828, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Minimizing data exposure in API responses" was invented by Hendrikus G. P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Alessandro Duminuco (Milan) and Zohar Kaufman (South Natanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for minimizing data exposure in API responses and includes the performance of operations and/or the steps of receiving, from a client, a request for a data object from an API, wherein the data object comprises one or more data elements; identifying a client type associated with the client; rec...