ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,213, issued on June 30, was assigned to KONG INC. (San Francisco).

"Microservices application service hub" was invented by Ross Kukulinski (Kirkland, Wash.), Reza Shafii (Sausalito, Calif.), David Erichsen (Minneapolis), Andrew Kimberly (Urbana, Ill.), Yongtao Tang (Boise, Idaho), Gabriella Angiolillo (San Francisco), Wanny Morellato (North Bend, Wash.) and Samantha Hepler (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating a microservices registry hub that automatically discovers and sorts services. A microservice architecture application includes a plurality of services, the plurality of services are each an application program...