ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,418, issued on April 22, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for software integration validation" was invented by Steven Edouard (San Francisco), Andrew Qin (San Francisco), Erin Kavanaugh (San Francisco) and Karolis Kosas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for providing a document-integrated software integration validation by a service provider system are described. The method includes detecting an application program interface (API) call generated by a user system in a test transaction, the API call comprising a test identifier (ID) and a user system ID, t...