ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,098, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing credential service related to cloud service" was invented by Hyun Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Min Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a credential service may include transmitting, to a user terminal, data of a request page including a cloud service selection field for selecting one cloud service from a list of a plurality of cloud services; receiving, from the user terminal, a request for issuing a temporary key for a credential for calling an API served by a se...