ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,697, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"API simplification process" was invented by Sebastian Mietke (Reilingen, Germany) and David Bischof (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods that can generate a simplified application programming interface for a custom software system that includes a pre-built application programming interface. In one example, a method may include receiving source code of an application programming interface (API) of a custom software system with built-in functionality for accessing the custom software system, identifying a subset of program...