ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,514, issued on June 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"API manager" was invented by Kyle Bolton (Cambridge, Mass.), Jacob Edward Oullette (San Francisco), Wayne Chang (San Francisco) and Sam A. Neubardt (Sommerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing application programming interface (API) keys associated with third-party software development kits (SDKs). The method includes: receiving, from an application developer machine, a plurality of notifications identifying a plurality of third-party SDKs selected for installment in a mobile application under development; sending a plurality of API...