ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,514, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Content delivery network-based routing of application programming interface requests to cloud service instances" was invented by Roman Nersisyan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Zayats (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Travis S. Tripp (Ft. Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes receiving, by a server associated with a content delivery network, a first request that specifies an application programming interface (API) call to a cloud service. The first request includes data that represents an authorization bearer token,...