ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,014, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Application programming interface (API) security" was invented by Azzedine Benameur (Fairfax, Va.) and Yun Shen (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing API security by identifying anomalous activities in a cloud environment are provided. In one embodiment, the lack of awareness of an external API with respect to how calls to the external API may affect a cluster of a container orchestration platform is addressed. For instance, the views of the external and internal APIs may be combined to achieve better API securi...