ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,871, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Policy enforcement and visibility by open APIs" was invented by Venkataswamy Pathapati (Koduru Mandal, India), Muhammed Shafeek (Bangalore, India) and Krishna Narayanaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology teaches keeping up with the deployment of APIs, so that Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) protection is afforded, parsing an OpenAPI specification for an API family, for identifying overall attributes of the API family. The technology includes parsing an OpenAPI specification to extract usable attributes of API res...