ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,643, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Science Applications International Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"API generator for network-model database" was invented by Jian Wang (Sterling, Va.), Mengzhu Wang (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kristaps T. Dzonsons (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An API generator may generate an API for performing actions on a database. The database may comprise a network-model database configured for access by one or more COBOL-based applications, and the generated API may be JAVA-based. The API generator may generate the API without requiring a user to write code and without requiring that user to have a det...