ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,247, issued on April 21, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Application programming interface (API) management and development" was invented by Elizabeth Caudill (San Francisco), Siyuan Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Parker Phillips (San Francisco) and Samuel Rogerson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and techniques for developing APIs that utilize multiple pre-existing APIs. The present disclosure also relates to a user interface that allows for chaining APIs together as a function of multiple pre-existing APIs. The present disclosure also relates t...