ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,911, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NextLabs Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Applying an authorization policy across multiple application programs with requests submitted through mobile app" was invented by Keng Lim (Atherton, Calif.) and Poon Fung (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique and system provide protection to information or documents via an authorization policy that is applied to multiple application programs and authorization requests are submitted through a REST API over HTTP or HTTPS. Methods, techniques, and systems control access to protected information or documents and use of content in protecte...