ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,639, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Automated API code generation" was invented by Salvatore Aspro (Vaughan, Canada) and George Wright (Carleton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An API generation system can be used to generate complete (or almost complete) APIs in response to received requests for new or modified APIs. Received API generation requests can include API descriptive data which is augmented to generate a set of data requirements defining one or more inputs and outputs for the API. The API functions can be mapped to one of a set of reference data models defining data types a...