ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,756, issued on July 14, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic synchronous or asynchronous execution of requests" was invented by Sowmya Tammana (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided that implement application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be executed synchronously or asynchronously depending on the expected response time of the API, the status of the API and/or systems that implement the API, the identity and/or type of user making a request via the API, historical requirements or operation of the API, and/or other factors."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18...