ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,657, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detection of abnormal application programming interface (API) sessions including a sequence of API requests" was invented by Itsik Yizhak Mantin (Shoham, Israel), Laetitia Kahn (Tel Aviv, Israel), Sapir Porat (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yaron Sheffer (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving data comprising a plurality of application programming interface (API) requests from a plurality of client devices. The method includes generating a plurality of API sessions based on the data, wherein each of t...