ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,271, issued on June 30, was assigned to Curity AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"GraphQL access authorization" was invented by Travis Spencer (Vargarda, Sweden), Jacob Ideskog (Vargarda, Sweden), Pedro Felix (Vargarda, Sweden) and Paulo De Athaydes (Vargarda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program for authorizing GraphQL access by calling an authorization engine to obtain an authorization decision and conforming to its obligation objects. A requester sends a message to a GraphQL function containing a query or mutation operation. The request is validated and authenticated. The authorization engine is called...