ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,185, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Flexible application programing interface using versioning request and response transformers" was invented by Thatha Pavan Kumar (Bangalore, India), Venkateswara R. Kakula (Cumming, Ga.), Sahukari Kranthi Kiran Chowdhary (Chennai, India), Lalitha Singh (Plymouth, Minn.) and Praveen Kumar Modukuri (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and techniques used to support a variety of consumer systems using a variety of versions of an API using step-up request transforms and step-down response transforms. The computer system may be configure...